International Criminal Court President Sang-Hyun Song spoke on campus Oct. 9 on the need to make genocide, use of child soldiers, and human rights violations unacceptable.
For exemplary work in planetary science, Cornell astronomy professor Jonathan Lunine will be awarded the prestigious Jean-Dominique Cassini Medal by the European Geosciences Union, the group announced Oct. 13.
For the first time, a team of interdisciplinary researchers have made recordings of neurons associated with visual perception inside the poppy seed-sized brain of a jumping spider.
A conference on campus Oct. 3-4, “Literary Theory at Cornell: A Celebration of Jonathan Culler and His Students," brought Culler's former students back to campus to reflect on his impact.
Eric Betzig, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88, and William Moerner, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, have shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for groundbreaking achievements in optical microscopy.
A collaboration between Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and materials scientists has yielded greater understanding of what particular nanocrystals look like individually, and how they fit together as they form larger structures called supercrystals.
Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, has received the National Medal of Science in chemistry, the nation's highest honor for scientists and engineers. Entomologist May Berenbaum, Ph.D. '80, also received the National Medal of Science.
