This year's freshman class in the College of Engineering is 37 percent female, putting the college on track to surpass a goal set five years ago to increase diversity at the college.
Men and women seem to have an equal tendency to avoid dating people with eating disorders. But when it comes to obesity, men are far less accepting than women, says a new Cornell study.
Persis Drell, professor of physics at Cornell and a noted experimental high-energy physicist, has been named leader of the Cornell group at CLEO -- one of the world's most advanced particle detectors.
An "information superhighway" inside plant cells allows chloroplasts -- the minuscule green bodies that carry out photosynthesis inside cells -- to communicate directly with each other, Cornell scientists have found.
Almost every research grant these days includes an "outreach" component: As a condition of their federal government funding, researchers are expected to inform the public about their findings and support science and technology…
Attachment is the theme of assistant professor Vivian Zayas' '94 life, as she's personally attached to Ultimate (Frisbee) and professionally to the study of attachment. (Oct. 12, 2010)
Five World Food Prize laureates will address the problem of world hunger in a fall semester seminar series, as part of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) yearlong centennial celebration. The seminars will be in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building on campus from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. The first seminar, Sept. 23, "Accomplishments and Aspirations: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health," features World Food Prize laureates Nevin Scrimshaw (1991), Catherine Bertini (2003) and Cornell Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen (2001). (September 16, 2004)