Alumna Lynn Ross details career path to housing policymaker

Lynn Ross, MRP '01, detailed her journey as a planner, from her earliest interest in the field to her current position in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, during a talk April 22.

Design alumna shares lessons on sustainability, life

Jessica Cooper ’07 delivered the biennial Glenn H. Beyer Memorial Lecture April 27 on campus. She is executive vice president and director of sustainability at Delos Solutions.

ILR School program remedies class-action settlement

The ILR School's Labor and Employment Law Program will begin work on a $4.9 million contract to establish the Records Assistance Program to help job applicants with criminal records get jobs.

Statler offers local students hospitality career skills training

Students from Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services career skills program come to campus to expand their vocational skills through a hands-on program at the Statler Hotel.

Solar-powered tag allows tracking of songbird migration

Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Winkler has developed the first lifetime-solar-powered tag for small songbirds to track them.

Big Ideas panel explores the risks of humanitarianism

Cornell professors Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò and Elizabeth Anker explored "Humanitarianism and its Discontents" in Klarman Hall's Groos Family Atrium on April 25.

Harkness era lacrosse players celebrate anniversary

Cornell lacrosse players from the 1960s gathered on April 23 to reminisce about their coach, the legendary Ned Harkness, who guided the Big Red to a 35-1 record and two Ivy titles from 1966-68.

Rawlings Scholars' research ranges from earworms to robots

From creating well-mannered robots to updating weed field guides to understanding why catchy songs turn into earworms, students showed their 2016 Senior Expo research projects April 21.

Grant to improve information access at Cornell Library

Cornell University Library will develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries’ scholarly information resources and share them, thanks to a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation grant.