A $1.7 million NIH grant will be used to better understand why teens are prone to taking risks. The study will use an MRI to compare brains of teens and adults when faced with risky decisions.
People's preferences for getting good stuff or good news last change as they age, reports a new study. Young adults want the good last; older adults want the good and bad mixed.
Cornell's Imaging Facility facility has added two state-of-the-art machines, one to extract tiny samples for genetic analysis and another to image fast microscopic events.
In his Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 11, author Wes Moore called for more leadership and education to save young people from dangerous alternatives like gangs.
People who love the natural areas of the Finger Lakes region and who care about preserving them might consider joining Cornell Plantations' Natural Areas Academy.
Isabel V. Hull, the John Stambaugh Professor of History, has won the inaugural International Research Support Prize of the Max Weber Stiftung and the Historisches Kolleg.
Entomologist Elson Shields, who spearheaded biocontrol ways to control the alfalfa snout beetle, will receive the Entomological Foundation Award for Excellence in IPM.
William McGuire, professor of civil and environmental engineering emeritus, died Jan. 31 in Ithaca at age 92. A memorial service will be held Sept. 7 on campus.
Eight students and a professor spent 10 days in Ghana over winter break, talking to women about their concerns for their communities. The findings will help shape future service trips to Ghana.
