Cornell researchers will travel to Paris as part of the university's delegation to the global climate change summit, COP21. Delegations from over 190 countries and more than 50,000 people will attend.
From its founding Cornell has been a secular institution, but when the university offered the School for Missionaries from 1930 to 1964 – a four-week course for missionaries on furlough – it became instantly popular.
Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells – dubbed "super natural killer cells" – that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them.
A procedure established in 2014 makes it easier for graduate and professional students to get the assistance they need when injured on university property or while engaged in a university-sponsored activity.
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.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff has called for proposals for feasibility and planning grants for academic programs that span the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses. The deadline to submit proposals is Jan. 22, 2016.
Researchers observed a mass of atoms cooled almost to absolute zero so that they could "tunnel" from place to place. But as long as the observation continued, no tunneling occurred.
Benjamin Franco Suarez took a break from his doctoral sociology studies at Cornell in 1972. He finished his study of fertility behavior of Bolivian Aymara women this year at age 90.
In the late 19th century, Cornell students enjoyed visually striking class lectures and extracurricular talks thanks to lantern slides – 4-by-3.25-inch projected glass slides that illustrated all subjects.
