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Symposium, celebration to honor retiring geologist Bryan Isacks

The story, says Cornell geologist Bryan Isacks, is usually pretty much the same. People study geology because they have a certain set of characteristics: They love physics and the outdoors; they're adventurous and curious.

Unheated greenhouse project offers growers hopes of profitability from longer growing season

Cornell researchers are working to extend the growing and selling seasons by as much as 10 weeks. Their method is a so-called high tunnel project using unheated greenhouses to grow various crops to see how practical they are for…

Cornell Law School student James H. Morris, 22, dies following auto accident near his Illinois home

James Hunter Morris, a Cornell Law School student, died Sept. 16 from injuries received in an automobile accident near his family's home in Carbondale, Ill. He was 22.A second-year law student at Cornell, Morris was associate…

Cornell named a top employer for working mothers

Working Mother magazine today (Sept. 25) named Cornell a "2006 Working Mother 100 Best Company."

Using synthetic DNA, Cornell researchers fashion low-cost, biodegradable hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering

Molecular Bioengineering Lab/Cornell UniversityDNA chains that attach to one another along part of their length can self-assemble into branching structures including crosses, T's and Y's. In the presence of enzymes that connect…

Conference to examine Chinese-North Korean relations

Cornell's East Asia Program will host "Limits of the 'Lips and Teeth' Alliance: The Antinomies of the Chinese-North Korean Relationship," a two-day international conference, Sept. 29-30, on the Cornell campus.Two sessions of the…

Cornell launches $3.3 million NSF program to build 'critical mass' of women faculty in engineering and sciences

Jason Koski/University PhotographyLeaders of the ACCEL program within the Provost's Office will be, from left, Provost Biddy Martin; Shelley Correll, associate professor of sociology; Marjolein van der Meulen, associate professor…

Multitasking different jobs is no problem, but double talk overwhelms us, Cornell study finds

We can listen to a car radio and drive while keeping an eye on changing traffic conditions -- separate complex tasks completed without much trouble. But if two people are talking to us at the same time, our perceptual frequencies…

Ganem wins national award for cancer drug synthesis

Bruce Ganem, Cornell's Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry and J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, is the winner of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) 2007 Award for Creative Invention. The award…

Culturing knee cells to scheduling Cornell's finals: Engineering students showcase research while networking with companies

Human tissue engineering to repair damage to cartilage, or meniscus, in the knee is a technology that Cornell master of engineering student Andrea Ippolito hopes to contribute someday to the biomedical engineering field.Ippolito,…

Giant 'C' sculpture of Cornell humanities books to depict the breadth of the university's scholarship

The world will soon "C" the humanities at Cornell as never before.In a first-of-its kind project, Cornell art Professor Buzz Spector will create one of the largest and most inclusive artworks in the university's history: an…

Architect Koolhaas unveils Milstein Hall design: A 'miracle box' to unify AAP campus

OMAAn artist's rendering of a view of Milstein Hall, connecting Sibley and Rand halls. Milstein Hall, the newest building of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), will be many things for many people: a space…