Events this week include Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel, NASA's Dava Newman on plans to explore Mars, dance at the Schwartz Center, a Student Sustainability Summit and ways to survive study break.
Scientists at Cornell's Baker Institute for Animal Health mimiced the way sperm tail enzymes are attached to a solid support in an attempt to achieve the same efficiency on small man-made devices.
Endangered leatherback sea turtles are known for their open-ocean migratory nature and nomadic foraging habits – traveling thousands of miles. But along the Mozambique coast, sometimes they stay in place.
Professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering Daniel P. Loucks has been awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Interntional Prize for Water, for his study of water resource management.
A team from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research is evaluating a curriculum for boys aged 12-14 that aims to keep them from committing sexual violence. The program will encourage boys to behave in prosocial ways.
Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, expressed his condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of first-year MBA student Jason Thomas, who passed away.
A synthetic mesh commonly used to treat urinary incontinence and weakening of female pelvis walls can lead to complications, new Weill Cornell Medicine research suggests.
Emeritus professor Franklin Kingston Moore, who was awarded a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, died on Nov. 21 in Ithaca. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Moore was 94.
Heritage language learners - students who know a language and have perhaps spoken or heard it since birth - are taking courses to address gaps in in reading, writing, pronunciation and vocabulary.
“Entanglements: Conversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound” features interviews with Trevor Pinch, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies and professor of sociology.
