A person’s genes can shape the types of microbes that reside in the human gut independent of the environment a person lives in, according to a Cornell-led study.
The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments — about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover.
Cornell University will be awarded up to $124 million over the next five years by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research at the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP) and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), a national user facility. Of the award, approximately $99 million already approved by the National Science Board, the NSF's policy body, would go to LEPP. Up to $25 million, recommended by NSF program managers, would go to CHESS, with $2.44 million of this amount funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute for General Medical Sciences. Both research facilities share use of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), the university's high-energy particle accelerator. (March 11, 2003)
Sital Kalantry, clinical professor of law, talked about sexual discrimination and racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the U.S. and oppression of women in India March 15.
A new exhibition, "Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art," now through Jan. 8 at the Johnson Museum, explores, deconstructs and redefines "boy-ness" as a socially determined identity. (November 04, 2005)
“Racing Extinction,” a documentary airing Dec. 2 on the Discovery Channel, features the work of Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist Christopher Clark and warns of the extinction of species.
The Cornell University Library has launched the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative to help faculty members help student to become better researchers in the digital age.
New grants of up to $1,500 that enhance teaching and learning are available to faculty on a competitive basis from the Center for Teaching Excellence. Deadline to apply for spring grants is Oct. 31. (Oct. 5, 2009)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced Jan. 3 that he will recommend to the Cornell Board of Trustees the appointment of Harold D. Craft Jr. as vice president for administration and chief financial officer, effective Feb. 1.
Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management will hold an in-service income tax school in central New York state to review income tax reporting and management Nov. 7 to 20.