Novelist and poet Robert Morgan and poet and essayist Kenneth McClane will read from their works at the first Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading on March 3.
Coroners won't write "death by global warming," but that could be an ultimate cause as millions succumb to disease in an increasingly unhealthy environment, a Cornell ecologist warns.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new Cornell study suggests that childless couples who work for the same employer tend to experience lower life quality and have less egalitarian marriages than coworking couples with children.
The Akwe:kon Press and Native Americas journal, part of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, will hold a "Global Warming/Climate Change" panel discussion on campus Feb. 25 and 26.
Commissioned institutional histories tend to be dry and self-congratulatory, dull work for anonymous authors and often even duller reading. Yet 'The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science', released last December, transcends the genre.
Cornell cancer researchers have revealed the molecular structure of a protein complex believed to influence the malignant transformation of cells, setting the stage for development of unique tumor-blocking drugs.
NASA has given the go-ahead for the Cornell University-led Comet Nucleus Tour, or Contour, mission. The agency said the mission has passed a critical review and the building of the spacecraft can begin.
Plans for Duffield Hall, a new research center facility aimed at keeping Cornell a leader in nanotechnology, have been submitted to the city of Ithaca, beginning the environmental and site-plan review processes.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced two news appointments. Robert Harris Jr., has been named vice provost for diversity and faculty development and Francille Firebaugh has been named director of special projects, Office of the President and the Provost.
Cornell biologists have shown how chemicals produced in a core region of the brain shared by all vertebrate animals (including humans) make males act like males, females like females -- and some males something like females.
American children typically spend between one and three hours a day at a computer, putting them at high risk for wrist, neck and back problems, says a Cornell University ergonomist. The problem is their sitting position.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 209 years ago from natural rather than unnatural ailments. So concludes a panel of physicians and Mozart scholars convened here Friday, Feb. 11, at the sixth annual Clinical Pathological Conference (CPC).
