Events this week include Cornell Orchards' Apple Spectacular, a student-made film reflecting on service in Thailand; the Cornell Orchestras playing jazz with special guests; MFA students reading poetry and fiction; and lectures on law and technology, global child welfare and the Middle East.
New research by Adam Anderson, professor of Human Development at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology, reveals how the eyes have come to be viewed as windows into the soul.
Researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute have created a reference genome for the predecessor of the modern tomato, and discovered sections that underlie fruit flavor and disease resistance, among other characteristics.
The shift to hybrid instruction last fall made face-to-face enrollment networks on campus smaller, less connected and more fragmented, according to an analysis by Cornell sociologists.
Laura Jones-Wilson, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, learned the term ‘aerospace engineer’ from watching ‘Star Trek’ episodes. With a Cornell education, she has landed her dream job at NASA.
Graduate students in six fields of study have designed an evolution lesson on speciation for undergraduate non-majors that applies active-learning techniques. The lesson was published in CourseSource.
The two-volume "Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies" feature distinguished senior and emerging scholars from across the human, social and natural sciences.
The search for answers to some difficult questions planted the seeds for developmental psychologist Anthony Ong’s latest course, the three-credit “Positive Psychology: Inside Prison (and Out).”