Nicki Webber Moore has been named the Meakem Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education. “I am very proud to be named as Cornell’s first woman AD during this 50th anniversary year of Title IX,” Moore says.
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Cornell Chronicle | Nicki Moore named director of athletics
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“Our holograms, embodiments of life on Earth, will be the first-ever launched into space, embossed on Alpha's solar panels,” says the Alpha CubeSat team. There are 27 mission-driven student teams participating in the 2022 crowdfunding campaign, which runs through December 6.
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Cornell crowdfunding
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After a month of searching on a remote island off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a Cornell-led team filmed a Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a species that hasn’t been documented by scientists since it was first described in 1882. The team worked closely with Indigenous community members, who recognized the species and referred to it by the name Auwo.
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Audubon
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Photo: Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon photo by Doka Nason/American Bird Conservancy
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