Nobelists to discuss creativity in science at workshop

Nurturing creativity in science will be explored on July 25 by leading scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, at the Creativity Spark: a creativity workshop for scientists.

Cornell launches new humanities collaboration in China

Cornell’s global reach expands with the inaugural session of the East China Normal University (ECNU)/Cornell University Summer School in Theory (ECSST), July 18-22 in Shanghai.

Gil Stoewsand, who helped to save N.Y. wine trade, dies

Gilbert Stoewsand, a Cornell food scientist who helped to rescue New York's fledgling wine industry in the early 1970s by debunking shoddy science that attributed health risks wine made from hybrid grapes, died July 4. He was 83.

Meinig investigator sees lipids as path to curing disease

The key to curing multiple sclerosis may well lie in the mysterious signaling of lipids, a major component of cells, says Cornell chemist Jeremy Baskin.

Six scientists named inaugural Mong neurotech fellows

Three pairs of early career scientists have been named the inaugural Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech. They will work jointly under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance brain technologies.

Cornell to host international linguistics conference

Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.

Future professors learn academia's unwritten rules

Cornell's first Future Professors Institute guided 77 participants, many of whom identify as underrepresented minorities, on the path to a career in the academy, and advanced Cornell's efforts to broaden diversity in higher ed.

Laura Spitz on Cornell's mission of global engagement

Laura Spitz, J.S.D. '05, vice provost for international affairs, oversees Global Cornell, a university initiative aimed at strengthening Cornell's international dimension, as well as Cornell Abroad, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell University Press.

Population studies pioneer J. Mayone Stycos dies at 89

Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.