Plans for Duffield Hall, a new research center facility aimed at keeping Cornell a leader in nanotechnology, have been submitted to the city of Ithaca, beginning the environmental and site-plan review processes.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced two news appointments. Robert Harris Jr., has been named vice provost for diversity and faculty development and Francille Firebaugh has been named director of special projects, Office of the President and the Provost.
Cornell biologists have shown how chemicals produced in a core region of the brain shared by all vertebrate animals (including humans) make males act like males, females like females -- and some males something like females.
American children typically spend between one and three hours a day at a computer, putting them at high risk for wrist, neck and back problems, says a Cornell University ergonomist. The problem is their sitting position.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 209 years ago from natural rather than unnatural ailments. So concludes a panel of physicians and Mozart scholars convened here Friday, Feb. 11, at the sixth annual Clinical Pathological Conference (CPC).
Another round of Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) minor system revisions is scheduled to go into effect Thursday, Feb. 24. Area bus riders can expect to see time schedule changes, route changes and relocated bus stops.
On Saturday, March 3, there will be a Venezuelan Cultural Night benefit concert in Barnes Hall. And a seminar, 'What Happened in Venezuela?' at a time and date to be announced, will provide more information on the disaster.
The history of the Andes mountain range is an epic and mysterious tale that a team of geologists at Cornell has been tracing for two decades. Now the team's work is about to get a major boost from space-borne technology.
Lotte Bailyn, the T. Wilson Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and author will give a free and open lecture Monday, Feb. 14.
Michael Brown, co-founder and president of City Year, will visit Cornell Feb. 11, and interact with student groups. Brown is coming to the campus to speak at the Cornell Tradition's fifth annual convocation.
