History professor Rachel Sandwell won the Joel Gregory Book Prize for "National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile," her study of women’s leadership in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement.
Weill Cornell Medicine has received a three-year, $2.5 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop therapies with fewer side effects for triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat breast cancers.
At Cornell's first All-IT Town Hall, university leaders shared their vision for the next chapter of Evolve IT, emphasizing stronger connections, shared opportunities, and a future built on collaboration without losing the local relationships and expertise that make Cornell's Information Technology community successful.
Researchers developed a potential replacement for the tiny copper interconnects in microchips: single-crystal nanowires that become better conductors the thinner they get.
Cornell archaeologist Caitie Barrett helps actor Tom Hiddleston uncover some of the secrets of the daily lives of people who were living in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.
Students and faculty will help the city transform its parks and their care – with new landscaping features and a proposed maintenance plan and governance structure.
A pair of studies from a Cornell nutrition scientist upend two pieces of received wisdom: that drinking more water at meals curbs eating, and that spicy snacks are a diet danger zone.
Cornell Botanic Gardens has expanded its self-guided walking tours to Spanish and Mandarin, the two most spoken languages other than English among Cornell students and their families. The gardens partnered with two campus programs, where students translated 10 tours into the two additional languages, and recorded audio for 26 stops around the cultivated gardens and F.R. Newman Arboretum.
Cornell’s third annual “Chillin’ on the Quad” returns July 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Ag Quad, inviting staff, faculty, students and retirees to come together.
Middle and high school students from across New York state spent three days discovering potential career paths during the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, held June 30 to July 2 at Cornell.
Cornell’s Einhorn Center for Community Engagement works with the School of Continuing Education to identify local STEP and Upward Bound students ready to enroll in Cornell courses through Precollege Studies
