Leonie Brinkema, Cornell J.D. '76, recently made headlines as the judge in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who on May 4 was convicted of being an accomplice in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Three advanced technologies are about to expand the horizons of health care, speakers at the 12th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium, "Frontiers in Biomedicine," will predict on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the Biotechnology Building at Cornell.
A team of three computer science students from Cornell will compete with 62 teams from six continents in the finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Cornell manages Citizen Science Central, an online clearinghouse for more than 130 citizen science projects around the country that invites and trains the public to collect scientific data. (July 28, 2011)
A Cornell study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that played a role in turning genes on and off.
Overweight mothers who exercise daily a year after the birth of their first child are, on average, 12 pounds lighter than overweight mothers who rarely work out, reports a new study from Cornell University.
The more ongoing stress children are exposed to, the greater the odds they will become obese by adolescence, reports Cornell environmental psychologist Gary Evans in the journal Pediatrics. (Jan. 30, 2012)
Former NASA astronaut Tom Jones will speak at Cornell University March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The talk is free and is open to the public. The subject of the talk, sponsored by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour) and the New York State Space Grant Consortium, will be "The International Space Station: Stepping Stone or Block?" (March 1, 2002)
A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.