Student docent program at museum prompts more tours

The new student docent program at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art trains about a dozen students a year to give tours. Students recruit and schedule their own groups. (March 1, 2011)

Nutrition society honors Brannon, Levitsky, Qi and Strupp

Patsy Brannon, David Levitsky, Ling Qi and Barbara Strupp, Division of Nutrition Sciences, have received awards from the American Society for Nutrition for their nutrition research and public service. (Feb. 28, 2011)

Campus mourns death of sophomore George Desdunes

President David Skorton sends a message of condolence on the death of sophomore George Desdunes of the College of Human Ecology. (Feb. 27, 2011)

Researchers study how to support the transition to adulthood in Latin America

An 18-month project in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia has helped researchers better understand what community program features best help marginalized youth and young adults transition into adulthood. (Feb. 18, 2011)

Students to present Triple Helix articles at AAAS

Four Cornell undergraduates will showcase their scholarly articles at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 17-21 in Washington, D.C. (Feb. 18, 2011)

Choices -- not discrimination -- determine women scientists' success, researchers say

Graduate student Erik Patel has traveled 15 times to Madagascar in his quest to study the rare silky sifaka lemur and as director of a nonprofit he founded to protect the snowy white creatures. (Feb. 7, 2011)

How voles avoid weasels provides clues to human obesity

Researchers at Cornell's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have discovered how certain signaling molecules in the cell are regulated. (Feb. 4, 2011)

Cornell Piano Society -- for beginners and virtuosos alike -- offers lessons, classes

Internationally renowned obesity researcher John Speakman used the example of the predatory pair to illustrate his 'drifty genes' theory, Feb. 2 during this year's McCay lecture. (Feb. 4, 2011)

Study: Community ties protect teens from smoking, obesity

Two hundred randomly chosen Cornell undergraduate volunteers lined up in Kennedy Hall Feb. 1 to provide a cheek swab for DNA to test their deep ancestries for the new Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project. (Feb. 2, 2011)