High school students from across the country and around the world are experiencing university life this summer at Cornell while exploring possible majors and earning credits. (July 20, 2007)
Andrew Clark, Steven Strogatz, Eva Tardos and William Thurston have been named Jacob Gould Schurman Professors, one of the most prestigious chairs at the university. (July 20, 2007)
When a simple X-ray revealed an illustration beneath the oil paint of N.C. Wyeth's 'Family Portrait,' a team of Cornell scientists and art conservators had found their next work of art to analyze. (July 19, 2007)
Honeybee queens tend to be promiscuous to produce genetically diverse colonies, report two Cornell researchers in the July 20 issue of Science. Such colonies are far more productive and hardy than genetically uniform colonies produced by monogamous queens, they report. (July 19, 2007)
Waitz Ngan was a sophomore at Cornell when she fell in love with the chimes. She was a medical student at Stony Brook when she fell in love with Adam Schuldt. Her engagement ring reflects both passions. (July 19, 2007)
Cornell historian Rachel Maines' scholarly book, 'The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction,' has been made into a documentary that will premiere at Lincoln Center, July 28. (July 19, 2007)
The 'Thinking Like a Scientist' program, developed by Cornell's Wendy Williams, teaches disadvantaged children the scientific method and why it is so relevant to their lives. (July 19, 2007)
Associate Professor John Cawley has accepted a seat on the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (July 19, 2007)
E. (Edwin) Scott Maynes, professor emeritus of policy analysis and management and an expert on consumer policy, consumer decision-making and survey research methodology, died at his home in Ithaca, June 24, at age 84. (July 19, 2007)
In the evolutionary battle in which plants are trying to beef up their defenses against pathogens, a bacterium has been found that infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant's cells to undermine the plant's defense system. (July 18, 2007)
Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened. One solution offered by a Cornell researcher and an Australian government scientist is to assess fines when threatened species are caught and killed.
Four U.S. Supreme Court justices and their European counterparts as well as a contingent of faculty, alumni and students attended the dedication of the Cornell University Center for Documentation on American Law, July 17 in Paris. (July 17, 2007)
