Nobel laureate Dr. Michael Brown, whose research paved the way for the development of statins, will explain how these drugs work in the Ef Racker Lecture in Biology and Medicine Thursday, Oct. 20.
Saul Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics, will explore what gravitational waves mean for science in the fall 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Faculty Invitational Lecture.
Two Cornell Tech master's graduates have won a World Congress on Information Technology award for their computer-vision invention, Uru, which projects advertising onto blank surfaces in a video.
David J. Thouless, Ph.D. '58, and former postdoctoral researcher J. Michael Kosterlitz share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in topological phase transitions of matter.
A volunteer program is connecting graduate students in the sciences and other fields with K-12 classrooms to teach mini-courses in Tompkins, Cayuga and Seneca county schools.
A doctoral program in systems to be offered by Cornell University beginning in fall 2016 will prepare students to tackle some of the world's most complex logistical problems.
As lakes and waterways are threatened by end-of-summer blue-green algae that produce cyanotoxins, new Cornell research shows how water chemistry controls toxic molecules captured by sediment.