Engineering professor Lynden Archer and graduate student Wajdi Al Sadat have devised an electrochemical cell that captures and converts carbon dioxide while generating electrical power.
Cornell is a welcoming community with a place for everyone. That's the Orientation Week message to new arrivals and their families: some 3,046 freshmen, 283 transfer students and 2,240 new graduate and professional students who will arrive on campus starting this Friday, Aug. 23.
A simple questionnaire developed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College can promote early detection of diabetes in adults so they can dramatically reduce their risk. (Dec. 21, 2009)
A diverse group of 120 Cornell students visited UN headquarters in New York City on Sept. 30, some of them international by citizenship, others by birth and yet others by academic interests.
By comparing the genomes of humans and five other mammals, Cornell researchers have identified 544 genes that have been shaped by positive selection over millions of years of evolution. (Sept. 15, 2008)
Bridging psychoanalytic thought and sexual science, a new book by two leading New York psychiatrists brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis, showing how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are irrational and unconscious.
At an Aug. 5 White House event, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Dean Soumitra Dutta joined leaders of elite business schools in committing to producing more women executives.
Justin Cheng '12 received the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for his studies of human-computer interaction. (Dec. 12, 2011)
Cornell's Presidential Search Committee, which has been charged with conducting a search for the university's next president, will hold open meetings in the coming days to receive input from the campus community.
After several months of construction, engineering and design work, Cornell's 2009 Solar Decathlon house will debut to the public Aug. 27 at the Great New York State Fair. (Aug. 17, 2009)