Cornell College Redesigns Core Curriculum

Cornell College's core curriculum has had minor modifications over the years, but this redesign is a more transformative change. Phase II consists of four pilot projects, which will unfold over the next two academic years.
26-Jun-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research team receives NSF climate change grant

The National Science Foundation has awarded the team more than $676,ooo to study stalagmites from caves in central and southern Portugal as a means of investigating how rainfall changed over decades and centuries starting 2,500 years ago.
26-Jun-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

A life changed

Randy Santiago never expected to leave his Chicago neighborhood, let alone go to college. Yet on May 13 he’ll graduate from Cornell College and will head to Madrid, Spain, with a Fulbright Award.
4-May-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Cornell College's Rhawn Denniston Receives NSF Grant to Explore Prehistoric Fire Activity

The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell College Professor of Geology Rhawn Denniston a grant in the amount of $51,645 to examine how prehistoric fire activity may be recorded by stalagmites.
27-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Neuroscience Research Suggests Cognitive Imbalance Can Occur After Heading a Soccer Ball

New behavioral neuroscience research suggests there’s likely a connection between heading the ball in soccer and brain imbalance.
19-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Cornell Student Honored as 2018 Newman Civic Fellow

Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 268 students who will make up the organization’s 2018 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows, including Cornell...
12-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Hassell Discovers What’s Really Behind a Primary Election

Primary elections were created to give voters more of a voice in candidate selection before the general election. Cornell College Professor of Politics Hans Hassell has researched the topic for years and has discovered there’s more to the story.
5-Jan-2018 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Research Team Creates Virtual Reality Surgical Simulator

Senior Nicholas Bieno is teaming up with Professor of Engineering Brian Johns to create a virtual reality surgical simulator for a procedure that repairs hip fractures.
30-Oct-2017 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites