Twenty-eight students from top U.S. universities participated in the summer scholars program at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.
Cornell researchers have developed a new method to create a patterned single-crystal thin film of semiconductor material that could lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and batteries. (Oct. 7, 2010)
A number of "CornellX" courses will soon be available for anyone and everyone to take online, now that Cornell has joined edX, a nonprofit online learning enterprise.
Author Jon Gordon '93 will give the keynote at the annual '21 Dinner' Saturday, Jan. 29, which honors the late Cornell lacrosse star George Boiardi. Jeremy Schaap '91 will be master of ceremonies. (Jan. 10, 2011)
The annual open enrollment period for endowed health, dental and select benefits plans will be Nov. 1-30. News from NYS on contract college employees plans are pending. Benefair will be Nov. 10. (Oct. 6, 2010)
Ann Bybee-Finley, a second-year doctoral student at Cornell studying cropping systems resilience with a focus on Northeastern dairy producers, has been named a 2017 Future Leader in Science.
As diners belly-up to a buffet, food order matters. When healthy foods are offered first, eaters are less likely to desire the higher calorie dishes later in the line, says a new Cornell behavioral study in the online journal PLOS One.
Cornell researchers have found that a plant's mating system has consequences for the evolution of another primary plant system: defense against enemies that eat them.
Niklaus Largier, of the University of California-Berkeley, spoke on aesthetic experience and possibility in a College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Sept. 13. (Sept. 19, 2011)