A new study debunks long-held assumptions about a pivotal protein in the production of steroids, which could open the door for better diagnosis and treatment of steroid hormone disorders.
Events on campus this week include physicist Robert Lang on origami; a recital with violinist Midori; a reading by poet Dana Gioia and a play at the Schwartz Center about pain and friendship.
If Supreme Court justices are "human actors," pivotal swing justices in 5-4 decisions are the most human of all, political scientists at Cornell and University of Maryland say.
More than 150 people, including many students, helped make hygiene kits to ship to girls around the world by the organization Day for Girls. Eight students organized the event.
Colleagues and linguistic scholars have contributed to a book honoring Alan Nussbaum, Cornell professor of classics and linguistics, on his 65th birthday.
Cornell received three grants, one for $3.5 million, to collect data on the biology of the Great Lakes, information that continues long-term datasets and provides current measures for researchers, fishery managers and policy makers.
Some people are genetically predisposed to see the world darkly, according to a study from the laboratory of a researcher now on the faculty of Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.
Left in an attic and missing for decades, the long-lost Vincent van Gogh painting – “Sunset at Montmajour” – was authenticated by in September. Art historians identified the work, in part, thanks to a Cornell-developed engineering technique based on a canvas weave map.
The new Cornell University Ruminant Center features an $8 million, 105,000-square-foot home in Harford, N.Y., in a bucolic setting 15 miles from campus.
