Bergen County, NJ native David Duffield has pledged a record $100 million to his namesake building at Cornell University.
The gift will help expand the Ivy League school’s engineering college, adding research space for quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Once completed, the expanded Duffield Hall will be 300,000 square feet and the gateway to the tech-centric southern edge of Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
After thousands of Department of Agriculture employees were fired last month, some early-career scientists have lost advisers. Ph.D. students at Cornell university say they worry about the future of their research.
Over 100 people rallied on Cornell’s campus last week to protest frozen funds, firings and federal changes to scientific research.
Cornell, which spent $452 million on NIH-funded research last year, has joined a lawsuit to block the proposed cuts. Meanwhile, Republican-led tax proposals could cost the university hundreds of millions annually. Leaders remain hopeful the university will navigate these financial challenges without major disruption.
Cornell University researchers used a new technology to design a vaccine that they say provides full protection against both flu and the COVID-19 viruses.
All job positions at Cornell University will be reviewed, including currently posted positions, fixed-term employment contract positions and term and temporary appointments. The process positions the university to review its job positions and advance only ...
Cornell University has announced that, effective immediately, it will implement a hiring freeze across all divisions.
A person working full time needs to make over $51,000 a year, or $24.85 an hour, to live in Tompkins County, according to a new study from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
What does a Cornell education — or any university education for that matter — mean? Columnist Armand Chancellor argues that universities may claim to teach their students how to think but they have failed to teach the guardrails that make thinking admirable.