Cornell scientists have characterized a key enzyme's structure to better understand its activity in vitamin B1 synthesis. The enzyme performs a complex series of 15 to 20 steps. (Nov. 19, 2008)
Five diverse scholars weighed in on the life, work and legacy of writer James Baldwin at a symposium Nov. 8 at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. (Nov. 12, 2008)
Art, Caribbean culture, history and spirituality will combine in Jamaican art historian Petrine Archer-Straw's winter session distance course, Rastafari, Race and Resistance. (Nov. 12, 2008)
Scholars, librarians, publishers and foundation officers discussed the future of scholarly exchange in the humanities at a forum on academic publishing Nov. 7-8 in A.D. White House. (Nov. 11, 2008)
Proposal topics include WTO disciplines and biofuels; the process of social displacement and militarization; and the world food crisis as a lens on global development. (Nov. 10, 2008)
Graduate student Leif Ristroph found that two or more flexible objects in a flow - flags flapping in the wind, for example - experience drag very differently from rigid objects in a similar flow. (Nov. 6, 2008)
A Cornell team finished second in the 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest, and one student on that team also has advanced to the finals of the Google Code Jam. (Nov. 4, 2008)
