Using the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach, which records a sleeper's time in light, deep and REM sleep through a small, wireless headband sensor, professor James Maas teaches students about their sleep. (Feb. 11, 2010)
Alumni share memories of the 1977 Grateful Dead concert in Barton Hall, a show that gave the venue iconic status among Deadheads who consider the show one of the best in the band's 30-year career.
'Sidelines,' a new weekly show on CornellCast and the Internet, features interviews with Big Red coaches and athletes. The show kicks off Feb. 9 with men's basketball coach Steve Donahue. (Feb. 9, 2010)
The Cornell Biological Field Station will offer 11-week undergraduate research internships starting June 1, with applications due Feb. 15. (Feb. 9, 2010)
Whether campus finances would become more or less centralized was the main point of debate Feb. 5 at a brown-bag lunch on the proposed budget model, which will take effect in July 2012.
Economist Partha Dasgupta urged students to do 'seriously important' research in health, education or transportation on his first visit to campus as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
This year Cornell ranks No. 3 among medium-sized schools on the annual rankings of Peace Corps volunteer-producing schools. Upcoming information sessions: Feb. 12, March 5 and 12, and April 9. (Feb. 8, 2010)
Eighteen ongoing faculty research projects, ranging from Greek archaeology to studies in early and contemporary Islam and modernist poetry, have been awarded grants by the Society for the Humanities.
Veterinary epidemiologist Yrjo Grohn has a new grant to study the bug that is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitals, using what he's learned from studying pathogens in farm animals.