Cornell researchers used cutting-edge X-ray technology to noninvasively image fruit flies during and after mating, revealing changes that occur in the female fruit flies' reproductive tract.
The Department of Mathematics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences offers a Senior Seminar in which graduate students teach Ithaca High School advanced topics in math.
Professors Adam T. Smith, anthropology, and Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern studies, led a mini-course on archaeology for young schoolchildren June 15-19 in Ithaca.
Cornell’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has given $1.2 million from its Academic Venture Fund to 11 new university projects from 37 proposals.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $275,000 to Cornell University in honor of Mellon Vice President Philip E. Lewis on his retirement from the foundation.
To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, Cornell astronomers have developed computer models that examine how ultraviolet radiation from their own nearby suns affects these worlds.
It takes “highly diagnostic” information – the kind that is especially revealing of a person’s true nature or character – to change a first impression, Cornell psychologists discover.
Using a novel combination of mathematical methods, Cornell linguists suggest that comprehension in Asian languages works in much the same way as it does in European languages.
