Cornell microbiologist Ruth Ley, principal investigator of a new $1.72 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, will study links between genes, gut bacteria and genes. (Oct. 24, 2011)
Events on campus this week include new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' in Sage Chapel, best-selling novelist Gary Shteyngart and a book talk on calories and politics. (Aug. 30, 2012)
Interim President Hunter Rawlings sent his condolences Tuesday to the family of Nellie Corson, widow of Cornell's eighth president, Dale Corson. Nellie Corson died Monday, Jan. 23, at the age of 102.
Behavioral economics takes into account such things as how questions are framed, according to panelists at as well as the initial allocation of resources according to panelists speaking April 26.
Teachers from around the country learned new techniques at the Institute for Physics Teachers, which wrapped up its ninth year of uniting and training high school physics teachers July 30. (Aug. 2, 2010)
The 10 students selected as winners of the 2009 New Student Reading Project essay contest will each receive $200 worth of books and have their essays published on the Reading Project Web site. (Nov. 9, 2009)