Before arriving on campus next fall, incoming Cornellians will read Romain Gary’s The Life Before Us, a novel about an illiterate Arab boy and the former prostitute and Holocaust survivor who raises him in the immigrant slums of Paris, according to Laura Brown, vice provost of undergraduate education.

A satellite designed and constructed by Cornell students placed second in the United States Air Force Research Lab’s sixth University Nanosat Program in January. 

President Skorton offers his advice for faculty, staff and students heading into the spring semester at Cornell.

Cornell's original sketch comedy group performed two shows this weekend which provided social commentary along with big laughs.

Research recently presented at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute conference shows that low grades in introductory STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — classes “push” students away from their STEM majors. The study demonstrates how grading gaps between science and non-science courses encourage higher STEM dropout rates.

With a tense health care debate dividing our country, our communities and even our families, I would like to take an opportunity to share a personal and rather ironic story, a rare instance of the existing health care system simultaneously demonstrating its inefficiency while saving my family and health insurance company a substantial sum of money. I really hope my personal experiences shed light on the importance of restructuring our nation’s health care system.