Cornell's statutory colleges will hold an Open House for prospective freshmen students on Saturday, Oct. 21, and a Transfer Day for prospective undergraduate transfer students on Friday, Nov. 3.
The discovery by a Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College scientist that poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) plays a pivotal role in gene transcription could open doors to new therapies for cancer and neurological disease, and even hints at connections between the foods we eat and gene expression within our cells.
An award-winning playwright, a psychologist interested in memory who helped found the discipline of cognitive psychology and an authority on elephant and whale communication are among the guest speakers in a Monday afternoon lecture series on memory and creativity to be offered this spring at Cornell.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," singer Joni Mitchell lamented in the 1970s. Three decades later, they are demolishing a parking lot and paving the way for a paradise.
On April 7, David Macaulay will come to the Cornell to deliver the spring 1999 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium.
Events on campus this week include organ concerts in Sage; concerts in Bailey; lectures by economist David Card, Steven Zunes, Ph.D. '90, Nick Salvato and Hod Lipson; poetry readings; museum events. (March 10, 2011)
The Cornell Work and Environment Initiative and the town of Londonderry, N.H., are conducting a national design competition for a site design of an eco-industrial park and its 25,000-square-foot flexible industrial building. Londonderry.
Horticultural scientist Susan K. Brown is mining the apple genome for the keys to some revolutionary reconceptions of a long-familiar fruit. (June 5, 2008)
Some are cylindrical, some look like a double sandwich and some are continuous three-dimensional cubic structures. All are generated by a class of designer macromolecules that could lead to improvements in solar-cell and fuel-cell technology, as well as advances in ultra-miniaturization of electronic devices. These synthesized molecules self-assemble themselves into structures with dimensions on the order of ten nanometers, an unusual process that mimics nature's most fundamental system of organizing living tissue. (One nanometer is about the width of three silicon atoms). (September 03, 2004)