Cornell has established the Cornell Research Scholars Program to help recruit the best and brightest undergraduate students with special research opportunities and financial support, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Oct. 25).
Researchers have long suspected that the chemistry of the brain largely influences personality and emotions. Now, a Cornell clinical psychologist has shown for the first time how the neurotransmitter dopamine affects one type of happiness, a personality trait and short-term, working memory.
William Julius Wilson was the opening speaker Oct. 19 at a symposium titled "American Society: Diversity and Consensus," honoring another heavyweight sociologist, Cornell's Robin M. Williams Jr., the Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus.
Cornell University alumni and friends gave the university a single-year record of $219.8 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 23).
Hans A. Bethe, Nobel laureate physicist at Cornell and head of the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project during World War II, will give a lecture on "The Making of the Bomb" on Monday, Oct. 28.
Africa is arguably the richest continent on Earth in terms of its natural resources, yet its share of world trade is less than five percent, writes Muna Ndulo, a Cornell visiting professor of law, in the current issue of the Institute for African Development newsletter Africa Notes.
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture titled "Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Why Culture is Not a Disappearing Object" at Cornell University Friday, Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
The Materials Science Center (MSC) at Cornell University has received funding for another five years, topping the list of institutions that were funded by the National Science Foundation as centers of materials research.
Frank Press, senior fellow with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., will give a free, public lecture at Cornell on Monday, Oct. 21. The lecture, "Out of Chaos: A Better Way to Support Science," is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell researchers have found a way to boost what may be whole milk's natural cancer-fighting ability. By making simple changes in the cow's feed, they have substantially increased the amount of conjugated lineoic acid (CLA) -- a cancer-fighting compound -- in the milk.
Hundreds of members of the Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 24, for Cornell University's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
