Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules. (Nov. 30, 2009)
A biosensor made from a common bacterium that can detect toxic metals in water won the Cornell Genetically Engineered Machines student project team a bronze medal at a recent competition. (Nov. 30, 2009)
The Cornell Board of Trustees approved an across-the-board tuition increase of $1,875 for all of the university's undergraduate students for the 2011-12 academic year. (Jan. 30, 2011)
Reunion 2013, for the Classes of 3s and 8s, will see alumni celebrating their fifth to 75th Reunions, from the Class of 1938 to the Class of 2008, as well as members of the Classes of 2013 and 2012 attending for Reunion Zero and Reunion One.
Cornell University and the University of Rochester have joined an initiative led by Syracuse University (SU) to create a central New York "humanities corridor" that will include collaborative research, interdisciplinary workshops…
The history professor's new book on one of the most famous conflicts in ancient history sheds light for the first time on the slave rebellion, the rebels' tactics and why they were ultimately defeated. (May 20, 2009)
Shimon Edelman of Cornell and colleagues have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text, infer the grammar behind it and generate new sentences.
Chris Barnes '09, an information science major who just graduated from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, was recently selected by UWIRE as one of the top 100 student journalists in the country. (June 1, 2009)
A central claim of the open access movement is that citations increase when articles are freely available. A new study finds the claim is false. (April 13, 2011)
Kenneth P. Birman, the N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2009 Tsutomu Kanai Award for his contributions to the state of the art in distributed computing systems. (March 2, 2010)