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Researchers learn the social function of babies’ babbling

New research shows that babies organize mothers’ verbal responses, which promotes more effective language instruction, and babbling is key.

Museum course dives into artistic, literary connections

Students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a gallery installation at the Johnson Museum in a course in the "Connecting Research With Practice" initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Create something at mannUfactory makerspace, opening Feb. 1

The mannUfactory, Cornell University Library’s makerspace, opens Feb. 1 in 112 Mann Library.

A high-salt diet produces dementia in mice

A high-salt diet reduces resting blood flow to the brain and causes dementia in mice, according to a new Weill Cornell Medicine study.

Cornell artists win global soil painting competition

A soil painting created by Cornellians won first prize in the university category of a global soil painting competition.

Gifts create new Arts and Sciences professorships

Four new alumni gifts have helped the College of Arts and Sciences create three new professorships and fund a new graduate student position.

U of Puerto Rico students prep to take refuge at Cornell

As students from Universidad de Puerto Rico are getting ready to arrive by mid-January, the campus community is gearing up to give them a warm welcome.

Lynden Archer to lead Cornell Energy Systems Institute

Lynden Archer, professor of chemical and biolomolecular engineering, is the new director of the Cornell Energy Systems Institute.

Engineers create new architecture for vaporizable electronics

Engineers have demonstrated a new method to remotely vaporize electronics, giving devices and data the ability to vanish.