A recent Cornell-led study has found that a type of immune cells, called natural killer T cells, plays a powerful role in reducing obesity-related inflammation and improving insulin resistance.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' 2009-2012 theme project, 'Judgment, Decision Making and Social Behavior,' is wrapping up three years of work to advance decision-making research.
A new effort on campus aims to coordinate collaboration among researchers interested in a Sustainable Land Management group that would foster a 'brown revolution' to improve soil health worldwide.
An ad hoc committee commissioned has continued to revise its proposed academic calendar to address faculty and student concerns. The Faculty Senate will vote on the proposal.
Two Cornellians taught 50 college students in Puerto Rico how to compost and spread the gospel of recycling on the island, which is running out of places to put garbage.
Jerome Ziegler, former dean of the College of Human Ecology and a leading expert on urban education, higher education and intergovernmental relations, died May 3 at age 88.
Vice President Susan Murphy issued a statement regarding an incident involving racial slurs and bottle throwing at 730 University Ave., home of Sigma Pi fraternity.
Cornell research has for the first time confirmed key predictions about how 'Cooper pairs' of electrons behave in new high-temperature superconductors.
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy-efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices, which retain information without electric power. (May 4, 2012)
