The Cornell University Weed Team sends graduate student Courtney Stokes to the 2013 North Central and Northeastern Collegiate Weed competition in Illinois for two days of brutal, mind-bending, grueling agronomic combat on July 24-25.
Children in foster care who qualify for adoption subsidies are twice as likely to get adopted as children who do not qualify for subsidies, according to a Cornell University study.
Stephan E. Lauzier, who is in charge of real estate development for the sprawling, 1,450-acre California State Polytechnic University-Pomona campus, has been named director of Cornell Real Estate. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Jonathan Culler defined the lyric and argued for poetics taking priority in literary studies in his July 24 lecture for the School of Criticism and Theory.
Researchers have moved a step closer to making graphene a useful, controllable material: They have shown that when grown in stacked layers, graphene produces defects that influence its conductivity.
U.S. intelligence agents – like the embattled Edward Snowden – are more prone to irrational inconsistencies in decision making than college students and older adults, a new study finds.
Ph.D. student Michelle Baumflek is studying indigenous plants in northern Maine that have economic impact and cultural significance for Native American tribes.
A new web site, developed by Cornell health educators and the Drowsy Driving Coalition of Tompkins County, offers up-to-date prevention information, including simple steps that can save lives when drivers start to feel sleepy.
When Ronald Hoy, the Cornell recipient of a $1 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, promises to "bring the fruits of research to the classroom and lab," he doesn't mean overripe bananas.