Cornell is taking the next steps in its streamlining process to rethink its administrative services. A new website and upcoming forums will provide updates on progress.
Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D. '86 and his wife have won a $1 million prize from the Jacobs Foundation for their work on the interplay between genes and environment in determining proclivity toward violence. (Oct. 21, 2010)
For the 30th anniversary of the Knight Scholars program, Cornell hosted an Oct. 19 luncheon in honor of the late Lester Knight's son, Chuck Knight '57.
After no health plan rate increases in 2010, the endowed health plan premium will increase 6 percent in 2011, below the national average for increases. Enrollment period begins Nov. 1. (Oct. 20, 2010)
An archaeological team led by Sturt Manning has found proof that hunter-gatherers began to form agricultural settlements on Cyprus half a millennium earlier than previously believed. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Using a new research approach to study the medical costs of obesity, a Cornell researcher and colleague find that its costs are twice as high as previously thought. (Oct. 20, 2010)
By understanding how molecules change under pressure, researchers have taken a step toward creating exceptionally strong, durable materials. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Cornell researcher Paul Bowser and Sea Grant fisheries specialist Dave MacNeill have received the first Research to Application Award for work on a fish virus and applying it in non-academic settings. (Oct. 20, 2010)
The funds from the National Science Foundation's Academic Research Infrastructure grant program will create four state-of-the-art science labs at the Paleontological Research Institution by summer 2011. (Oct. 20, 2010)