The National Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued warnings to 60 universities, including Cornell, on Monday.

ITHACA, NY (WBNG) -- Cornell University’s engineering program will receive a $100 million investment. Thanks to a donation from alum David Duffield, Duffield Hall will be significantly expanded.

Cornell University in Ithaca faces a potential federal funding cut. The University has received a federal notice from the U.S. Education Department (D.O.E.) regarding what the agency describes as "anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment.

At least 16 students and community members were arrested or detained on Monday during a peaceful walkout at Cornell University’s Ithaca campus. The demonstration, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Cornell,

The U.S. Department of Education has warned Cornell University and 59 other institutions that they must take stronger action to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment or face enforcement measures.

An astronomer who graduated from Cornell University and gathered years worth of research that uncovered the existence of dark matter will now be featured on a U.S. quarter, as reported by Cornell’s alumni publication Cornellians.

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.

Some Cornell University scientists and researchers are protesting recent changes by the Trump administration to federal education funding and policies. They say the changes are a dire threat to scientific research.

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