Chemical engineers have developed a new method for making large quantities of integral membrane proteins simply and inexpensively, without the use of detergents typically used today.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, will speak on “Six Degrees of Separation” Sunday, April 26, 1-2:15 p.m. at Bailey Hall, as part of Charter Day.
Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration conference, April 16-17, will bring more than 200 alumni to campus for networking, panel discussions and speakers celebrating entrepreneurship at the university.
For a week beginning April 13, the portion of East Avenue located between the traffic-control gates will be closed to all vehicular traffic, including buses and bicycles, to facilitate road repairs.
Actor and environmental activist Ted Danson will deliver the Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture, “Fish Tales: How Ocean Conservation Became My Passion,” Monday, April 20 at 5 p.m.
Boyce Thompson Institute professor Maria Harrison is the 2015 winner of the Dennis R. Hoagland Award for her research into the symbiotic relationship between plant roots and fungi.
Thinking in pictures and shapes – rather than mere words – will lead to improved consumer sensory memories about wine, said Kathryn LaTour at the inaugural Women of the Vine symposium, held in March at Napa, California.
These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.
Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.
Women make up 39 percent of Cornell's engineering undergraduates – almost twice the national average, according to a National Science Foundation report. The report also found Cornell has made strides with underrepresented groups in science.
Partial knee replacements are superior economically to total knee replacements in older adults, new research from Weill Cornell Medical College and Hospital for Special Surgery investigators suggests.
This fall, freshmen and new transfer students will read the classic Kurt Vonnegut Jr. '44 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," the 2015 choice for the New Student Reading Project.
