The fellowships, for students planning to pursue a teaching career, provide support for six to 12 months of dissertation research in a foreign country. (June 3, 2010)
Research on a modified protein around which DNA is wrapped sheds light on how gene regulation is linked to aging and longevity in nematodes, fruit flies and possibly humans.
Humanist Geoffrey Harpham, the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, lectured on “The Pryvat Spyrit of America, from Dissent to Interpretation” Nov. 13.
Hunter R. Rawlings III, president emeritus of Cornell and currently a professor in the university's Department of Classics, will become interim president of Cornell following President Jeffrey S. Lehman's departure June 30. Subject to approval by the Cornell Board of Trustees, Rawlings will serve until the university names a new president, said Peter Meinig, chairman of the board.
Faculty and staff will not need to maintain their own infrastructure for video streaming or master the technical details of formatting and compression. They will simply upload their video to CIT. (Sept. 15, 2011)
Making his second visit to the Cornell campus in a week, New York Gov. George Pataki again brought funding, this time $12 million for preliminary work on the proposed Energy Recovery Linac (ERL), which will help create the…
A conference at Cornell promotes 'podcars' that would move people quickly and efficiently enough to convince them to leave their cars home. (Sept. 16, 2008)
Research Notebook: What people desire, hope, fear or wishfully think can influence how they perceive visually ambiguous stimuli, according to a new study by Cornell.
Research Notebook: Cohabitation is unlikely to lead to the altar, especially for poor and minority women. A new Cornell study reports that one-half of all cohabiting unions end within a year and 90 percent within five years.