Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."
A team led by Cornell professor Grace Xing has created gallium nitride power diodes capable of serving as building blocks for GaN switches, with many possible power and electronics applications.
Dice-like knucklebones and poker-chip colored stones aren't evidence of a 3,500-year-old casino, Cornell archaeologists explain. "House of Cards" President Frank Underwood might agree.
A Cornell research team is joining local efforts to help design a socio-ecological corridor that could help save endangered, threatened, endemic species in Ecuador's Andes region.
The sixth Cornell Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference, held April 19-21 in Shanghai, drew record-high attendance of nearly 100 Cornell alumni, parents, friends and faculty members.
Right-wing parties in Europe, like France's National Front, are taking advantage of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, panelists said Feb. 27.
By any measure, Cornell Tradition fellows are exceptionally motivated and dedicated. How do these students do it all, and how does the program stay vibrant year after year?
Abby Cohn, professor of linguistics, finds that Indonesia's "official" language is endangering hundreds of other languages spoken by small groups of people.
With Cornell's four new MOOCs for spring 2015, students from all over the world can survey global hospitality management, tour technology inside your smart phone, fix ecologically broken places and explore eating from an ethical perspective.
Faculty members and writer Amara Lakhous discussed the status of Muslims in Europe in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France. It was the first of two discussions organized by the Einaudi Center.