Maria Cristina Garcia, from the College of Arts and Sciences, and Anthony Burrow, from the College of Human Ecology, have won the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service Through Diversity.
Cornell events include an adventure film festival and Oscar-nominated shorts; adaptive rock climbing; a reading by Emily Fridlund and Joanie Mackowski; and an exhibition featuring campus voices on goodness, gratitude and belonging.
Cornell Engineering has announced winners of its Scale-Up and Prototyping Awards, which give teams of engineering faculty and students up to $40,000 to commercialize startup technologies.
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine report immune cell activity in the brain differs between males and females in ways that may explain why some neurodegenerative diseases affect the sexes differently.
The Spitzer Space Telescope – with its Cornell-developed infrared spectrograph instrument – has been peering through murky cosmic dust to study the distant heavens. The mission ends Jan. 30.
Virology expert Gary Whittaker, who studies the coronavirus, says while the virus is spreading rapidly, good public health measures will limit further contagion.
An NSF-funded initiative, co-led by professor David S. Matteson, aims to harness data across disciplines in order to identify risk factors for catastrophic events.
A group of researchers led by adjunct professor David Stern, president of the Boyce Thompson Institute, has developed a type of corn that is chill-resistant, which could increase growing area and productivity.
KC Wagner, workplace sexual harassment expert says the television and film industry will not be forced to change unless there are repercussions for harassment.
Richard Bensel, professor of government at Cornell University, predicts that Joe Biden will win Iowa, in part because the Iowa Caucuses structure encourages voters to switch candidate preferences. Elizabeth Sanders says that this primary season is round two in the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.
