The Institute oversees the Cornell Writing Centers, Graduate Writing Service, writing workshops, the first-year writing (FWS) seminars and other writing resources across campus.
Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
The hormone estrogen regulates binge drinking in females, causing them to “pregame” – consume large quantities of alcohol in the first 30 minutes after it’s offered, according to a preclinical study led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Four Cornell researchers were chosen from a competitive, global application pool to receive Bezos Earth Fund awards to use AI to address climate change and nature loss.
Items from the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection make up over 75% of the exhibit “Influencers: 1920s fashion and the New Woman” at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York.
Neuroscientist Gary Gibson, Ph.D. ’73, keeps a framed picture of a cell derived from the skin cells of a person with Alzheimer’s disease on his office wall.
The image is a memento of Gibson’s breakthrough…
In a new book, Isabel Perera explains why after deinstitutionalization, some affluent democracies failed to provide adequate services for the severely mental ill while others expanded care.
Over the last decade, perovskite photovoltaics have emerged as the most exciting alternative to silicon, with Cornell researchers studying how the material can be grown to be more durable for optimal performance, and be recycled.