Study cracks brain's emotional code

A new study by Cornell neuroscientist Adam Anderson finds that the human brain turns feelings into a "standard code" across senses and situations.

Summer course trains experts in WHO policies

Experts are at Cornell July 7-18 for training in World Health Organization procedures to inform WHO’s recommendations for nutrition and public health policy.

Healthy people carry disease-causing mitochondrial DNA mutations

For the first time, researchers have discovered that disease-causing mutations in mitochondrial DNA are common in healthy individuals.

Cornell obtains $3M grant to study tobacco warnings

To determine effective tobacco warning labels, five Cornell faculty members will receive a five-year, $3 million federal grant to examine how anti-smoking messages can affect youth, and low-income and low-education groups.

Workshop offers roadmap to link research, practice

The Research Navigator Initiative workshop brought together faculty with extension educators to talk about new ways to perform and use research June 25-26.

BEST program gives Ph.D.s insights into nonacademic jobs

The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.

C.C. Chu honored for bioengineering research

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering named fiber scientist C.C. Chu to its College of Fellows, an honor reserved for the world’s top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers.

Fiber Science & Apparel Design adds new B.S. degree

The Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design has added a B.S. degree in fiber science and updated its curriculum for its renamed B.S. degree in fashion design and management.

Girls’ perceptions drive sexual behavior

A new study contradicts previous findings that the onset of puberty alone influences sexual behavior in young women and identifies genetic influences that play a far larger role that previously thought.