On the first day of virtual teaching for the Ithaca campus, Cornell instructors led 6,600 Zoom meetings with a total of 89,000 participants. Three weeks of coordinated planning and support led to a smooth start for all-online instruction.
Merrill Scholars' high school teachers and Cornell faculty members were recognized by President David Skorton and the college deans at a luncheon and ceremony at Willard Straight Hall May 20.
Todd Walter, associate professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, effective July 1.
The 2016 Empire State Healthcare Survey, conducted by the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, revealed that the cost of medical care and health insurance has many New Yorkers worried.
On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release figures for unemployment in the month of July.
Erica Groshen is a senior labor economics advisor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has written extensively on how economies can recover from recessions.
Google announced Wednesday an experimental quantum processor completed a calculation in just a few minutes, a process that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years.
This fall, freshmen and new transfer students will read the classic Kurt Vonnegut Jr. '44 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," the 2015 choice for the New Student Reading Project.
Tickets are now on sale through Sept. 28 for Cornell’s Fall Employee Celebration for staff, faculty, retirees and their families, to be held Oct. 7, when Cornell Big Red football will square off against Harvard University at 1:30 p.m. The $5 per person ticket covers both football game and Cornell Community Dinner.
Cornell has incorporated new state legislation measures into existing efforts to address all forms of sexual harassment, violence and assault, and gender discrimination.
In the second season of the Inside Medicine online video series, Weill Cornell Medicine chronicles three stories emblematic of the institution’s dedication to translational research.
