Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist -- will visit the this month and next as A. D. White Professors-at-Large, giving public lectures.
Cornell chemists have created the world's smallest wires and encased them in a plastic polymer, an accomplishment that could lead to a host of new electrical or optical uses at the nanometer scale.
Top scholars in psychological science present state-of-the-art thinking on personality disorders and developmental psychopathology in two new books edited by Cornell clinical psychologist and psychopathology researcher Mark F. Lenzenweger: Major Theories of Personality Disorder and Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology
Chaos. To engineers, it has meant that their systems were at risk, and they did their best to engineer chaos out of them. “It used to be a nuisance. Engineers would avoid it at all costs,” said Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell associate professor of theoretical and applied mechanics.
Cornell scientists report the accurate characterization of a sample representing 1 percent of the protein in a single red blood cell using electrospray mass spectrometry – a feat that opens the door to a wide area of basic medical exploration.
One universal principle – opposites attract – accounts for homosexuality as well as heterosexuality, according to a Cornell University psychologist who proposes a sweeping new theory of how sexual orientation develops.
NSF Director Neal Lane, top researchers in the field will give talks Neal Lane, director of the National Science Foundation and a physicist by training, will be among the key speakers at the 50th anniversary celebration of Cornell University’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics on Sept. 20 and 21.
Most African nations remain entrenched in the cultural, legal and other practices of their former British, French or Portuguese colonizers, a generation or more after achieving independence, according to Joan Mulondo, program coordinator of the Institute for African Development at Cornell.
