Cornell’s the One When it Comes To New York’s Tech Campus
Mayor Bloomberg’s vision of creating a new engineering and applied science campus in New York has inspired no shortage of
View ArticleCooper Square Curves for CornellNYC Tech: Thom Mayne Tapped to Design First...
A gravelly voiced Californian who has won “the Nobel of architecture” and an upstate ivy are now poised to transform
View ArticleThe Evil Eye! Israel Boycott Comes to Roosevelt Island As BDS Movement...
After they came after our hummus, it was only a time before they came for our mobile app engineers. Anti-Israeli
View ArticleCornell University Chooses Shannon Ebner for Teiger Mentor in the Arts
Up in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University has selected artist Shannon Ebner as the art department’s Teiger Mentor in the Arts
View ArticleSpy Training and Stand-Up Comedy: Summer Camp Isn’t What It Used to Be
Check out our list of specialty summer camps for kids.
View ArticleSummer School: The Worldwide Guide to Educational Tourism
Oxford University's famous Summer School for Adults attracts students who are looking for a holiday in England as well as the chance to brush up on literature, music, religion art history and...
View ArticleWilliam B. Provine: The Evolutionary Theorist Even Creationists Loved
Provine, a distinguished professor at Cornell University for most of his academic career, was a historian of science, a kind of hybrid between scientist (especially an evolutionary theorist) and...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: Carl Sagan Altered My Trajectory
"Sagan invites me into the lab, and he signs one of his books to me. Didn’t even look, he just reached back and grabbed a book on his shelf, and it was one of his books. That was badass, to just reach...
View ArticleAre Painters Out of Ideas?
When are artists inspired by history and when are they copying history?
View ArticleHow Playing Sports, Even Poorly, Can Make You More Successful in Business
If you think the only benefit of playing sports is pleasure and amusement, think again!
View ArticleFast Food and C-Sections Are Unhealthy for the Same Surprising Reason
The tiny microbes that live on the human body provide key information that is critical to overall health.
View ArticleThis Living Emoji Bird Has a Slightly Angrier Emoji-Bird Cousin Species
This bird was an emoji before emoji were a thing.
View ArticleBloomberg: Cornell Tech Campus Key to Competing With Silicon Valley
The billionaire and former mayor hailed the opening of the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island as a new era of technology in New York City.
View ArticleIvy League Law Professors Are Exploring the Possibility of Suing ICE Officers
"There's several different potential avenues," Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, a law professor at Cornell, told Observer.
View ArticleCornell Scientists Find 1,000 Nearby Stars Where Aliens Could Be Watching Us
A new study identified 1,004 stars in the solar neighborhood with Earth in their direct line of sight.
View ArticleMember Items Without Members
Listed in this year’s state budget that passed last week were $170 million worth of member items which, in the spirit of Everything Changing, were included as a way of bringing some measure of...
View ArticleCornell Plans Medical Tower on York Avenue
The hospital-heavy Upper East Side can expect yet another medical arrival, as Cornell’s Weill Medical College seems to be moving ahead with a research facility adjacent to its current campus. A...
View ArticleCornell Art Museum Names Stephanie Wiles Director
Stephanie Wiles, the director of Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, has been picked by Cornell University to run its Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Ms. Wiles will replace Franklin W....
View ArticleCornell Art Museum Names Stephanie Wiles Director
Stephanie Wiles, the director of Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, has been picked by Cornell University to run its Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Ms. Wiles will replace Franklin W....
View ArticlePhilanthropist Lisa Yang Gives Cornell $35M for Conservation Education
A research center dedicated to wildlife health at Cornell University just received a $35 million boost from Lisa Yang, a retired investment banker who earned a bachelor’s degree from the school in...
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