Kennedy endowment funds evolutionary biology lectures

An endowment bequeathed by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, professor of physical anthropology at Cornell for 41 years, will fund a lecture series and visiting professorship in human evolutionary biology.

Male frogs have sex on land to keep competitors away

A new study shows for the first time that some frogs hide eggs on land to reduce competition from other males who also want to fertilize those eggs.

Mary Beth Norton to lead American Historical Association

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.

The next 25 years: arXiv looks to the future

On its 25th anniversary, the arXiv repository of scientific papers plans improvements based on user requests.

Students build college skills in Prefreshman Summer Program

In June about 180 new Cornell students arrived on campus for the Prefreshman Summer Program, which gives them the opportunity to prepare for the challenges of their first year of college.

Team devises new way for stabilizing battery recharge

Immobilizing negatively charged ions in the polymer-like separators of rechargeable lithium batteries is shown to result in stable electrodeposition, even at relatively high current densities.

Cornell-led research resolves long-debated Mesopotamia timeline

Dendrochronology research by professor Sturt Manning has established a secure timeline for the archaeological and historical chronology of Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.

Cornell launches new humanities collaboration in China

Cornell’s global reach expands with the inaugural session of the East China Normal University (ECNU)/Cornell University Summer School in Theory (ECSST), July 18-22 in Shanghai.

Meinig investigator sees lipids as path to curing disease

The key to curing multiple sclerosis may well lie in the mysterious signaling of lipids, a major component of cells, says Cornell chemist Jeremy Baskin.