High blood pressure transforms cells of the immune system that reside around cerebral blood vessels and normally protect the brain into agents of cognitive decline, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.
Physicist Anton Zeilinger will explore how quantum entanglement has been applied to cryptography, teleportation and even communication satellites Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall.
New research shows that we feel more gratitude for what we've done than for what we have – and that kind of gratitude results in more generous behavior toward others.
In New York City Nov. 12, a wave of chants, horns, sirens and signs, along with the Big Red Band, marked the 22nd Sy Katz '31 Parade down Fifth Avenue.
Researchers at Cornell and Michigan have joined teams in France to find out if native speakers of American English and French use the same brain structures to understand a story when it is read to them in their own language.
President-elect Martha E. Pollack received a Big Red welcome, complete with a standing ovation, from deans, staff, faculty, trustees, alumni, students and staff at a luncheon Nov. 14 at the Statler Hotel.
In 2009, then-Michigan professor Martha E. Pollack gave the Salton Lecture to the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell. On April 17, 2017, she will become the university's 14th president.
Members of the Presidential Search Committee began with a list of more than 300 candidates, said Jan Rock Zubrow '77, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chair of the search committee.
Martha E. Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, was elected Cornell's 14th president. She will assume the presidency April 17, 2017.
Three government professors described what they expected from Donald Trump's foreign policy approach Nov. 10 at the weekly lecture of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Farmers looking to reduce reliance on pesticides, herbicides and other pest management tools may want to heed the advice of Cornell agricultural scientists: Let nature be nature – to a degree.
