Good news for consumers with a sweet tooth. Cornell food scientists have reduced the sweetener stevia's bitter aftertaste by physical – rather than chemical – means, as noted in the journal Food Chemistry.
Six Cornell researchers will receive grants totaling more than
$3 million as part of the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.
Philip Gourevitch ’86, staff writer for The New Yorker, spoke about the Rwandan genocide on campus Nov. 3 as the USC Shoah Foundation's genocide archive comes to Cornell.
In their 'PhDivas' podcast, scholars Liz Wayne and Christine Yao find common ground across the STEM-humanities divide with wit and insight on contemporary culture, social issues and life in academia.
The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative will host its last speaker of the fall semester, Basile Zimmermann, assistant professor of Chinese studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16.
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who developed a new technique in genome engineering that allows DNA to be edited almost as easily as editing text, will deliver the Racker Lecture on campus Nov. 19.
Two talks will held Friday, Nov. 6, focusing on international community partnerships, at noon and 3 p.m. Faculty members, students and representatives of international organizations will participate.
Kenneth A. McClane ’73, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor Emeritus of Literature, spoke about friendship in a Phi Beta Kappa lecture on campus Oct. 28. He drew on experiences growing up in Harlem.
