NASA's Kepler space telescope, in concert with Cornell-led measurements of stars' ultraviolet activity, has observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star.
Eight teams of entrepreneurs are spending their summer developing their business ideas into products at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works' Hardware Accelerator.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 6, 2012)
A new genetic-engineering technique invented by Cornell researcher Matthew DeLisa could pave the way for creating and cataloging disease-specific antibodies in the lab. (March 24, 2009)
Twenty Cornell Students will travel abroad for the 2008-09 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Program and another three Cornell students have received Fulbright-Hays fellowships. (Aug. 20, 2008)
Students in an introductory marketing course received free samples of Wrigley's new brand of gum, '5.' Professor Ed McLaughlin discovered that those who chewed it during their prelim scored remarkably better. (Sept. 25, 2007)
Cornell University Library is now offering alumni unlimited access to three electronic databases featuring the latest news and research in business and hospitality and on a variety of academic topics.
The American Physical Society has recognized Chris Henley and James Sethna, both professors of physics, as 'outstanding referees' of peer-reviewed research. (March 6, 2012)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Professor Fredrik Logevall will give a weeklong Cornell Adult University summer seminar, “America’s Vietnam: How Did it Happen?” July 6-12 on campus.
More than half of all New York state residents (51 percent) oppose President Bush's proposal to change Social Security by allowing individuals to privately invest a portion of their Social Security taxes, according to a poll by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations Survey Research Institute (SRI). The poll found that only about one-third of residents (36 percent) surveyed support the proposal.