… Ezra Cornell’s promise of 150 years ago and Andrew Dickson … law, Peñalver participated in a faculty panel discussion of Ezra's vision Oct. 30 in Kennedy Hall. About 60 people … Carrying out Ezra Cornell’s vision in teaching, research, practices …
Humans share 98.8 percent of their DNA – as well as tool use and systems of communication – with bonobos and chimpanzees. Yet human activity threatens these “next of kin” great apes with extinction. In “Apes and Sustainability,” a forum on Nov. 15, activists, scholars, scientists and humanists will explore new perspectives on preserving nonhuman great apes in sustainable ways. The event will be held in the A.D. White House’s Guerlac Room 4:30-6:30 p.m., followed by a reception.
Peter Enns, associate professor of government and executive director of the Roper Center and Jonathon Schuldt, associate professor of communication and a faculty affiliate at the Roper Center, studied whether Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric would help or hurt Republicans going into today's elections and report
Drawing a picture of wonder with words, images and animations, Dean Jayawardhana shared his enthusiasm for astronomy exploration as keynote at this year's Trustee-Council Annual Meeting.
Variation is the spice of life, especially on the genetic level. Any two humans, for example, differ on average by 20 million nucleotides out of a total of 3 billion. “There’s tremendous interest in understanding what those differences do,” says Charles F.
Kaushik Basu, a professor of economics, former chief economist of the World Bank and non resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution wrote an opinion piece for news outlet Mail & Guardian discussing the role that digitalization of economics play in our societies following the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's newest president. Basu claims that feelings of vulnerableness, anger, and anxiety grow out of a surging inequality of wealth caused by technology's unprecedented boom.
Three neuroscientists discussed how birds learn to sing, an RNA editing approach to potentially cure the autism spectrum disorder Rett Syndrome, and the latest progress in functional imaging of human brains at the third annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium, Sept. 27 in the Biotechnology Building.
… The Posse program in the College of Arts & Sciences is a key initiative in Cornell's outreach to … a call from a senior in ILR who worked closely with the admissions team and found out that Cornell would provide full … ; to offer peer-to-peer counseling and conflict resolution services; and to provide undocumented and DACA student …
After a half-century singing songs you know, the Cornell Hangovers offer a harmonic convergence to celebrate their golden anniversary. The group’s Fall Tonic concert will be Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. at Bailey Hall
