Cornell researchers have discovered that the cell’s protein-making machinery, called ribosomes, exists in a hybrid form to meet different needs encountered under normal and stressed conditions.
Nine Cornell doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in April at the Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education.
The Association of Graduates in Theatre (AGIT) acts as a forum for students to share their scholarly work and artistic processes with campus. Submissions for its fall 2015 Playfest are due April 17.
Research on a modified protein around which DNA is wrapped sheds light on how gene regulation is linked to aging and longevity in nematodes, fruit flies and possibly humans.
The McNair Scholars Program, which seeks to increase the number of first-generation, low-income or underrepresented students in doctoral programs, inducted 15 new members April 11.
Teams from two downstate schools took top prizes in the second annual Cornell University High School Programming Contest April 7. First and third prizes went to two teams from the Dalton School in New York City.
In his Robot Learning Lab, Ashutosh Saxena has developed an algorithm that allows robots to operate machines they have never seen before by consulting an instruction manual and drawing on its experiences.
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.
A study asserts that, in the presence of a gentle fluid flow, the biophysics of the female reproductive tract – in particular, the grooves that line parts of it – critically assist sperm migration.
