While some reports have suggested that activated genes move to a specific nuclear location for transcription, Cornell research supports the traditional view that gene activation is not dependent on movement to special locations, or so-called 'transcription factories.'
Harvard's Sheila Jasanoff says she holds the Bush administration accountable for the 'radical skepticism' that many Americans now have toward science and technology. (Sept. 5, 2008)
What is believed to be the first course on vegetarianism at a mainstream university. The course, Vegetarian Nutrition (NS 300), will be taught by T. Colin Campbell, professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell and the director of the Cornell-China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health and Environment, the most comprehensive project on diet and disease ever conducted.
Mark Polking, a junior in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, has received a 2004 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, considered the premier undergraduate award in mathematics, science and engineering.
Cornell's concrete canoe sundered, but the steel bridge team placed second in aesthetics at the annual ASCE student competition that featured 11 regional schools, April 13-14. (April 16, 2007)
Cornell researchers have shown that catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes occur at unique sites, which could lead to a new way to make cleaner fuels. (April 16, 2009)
Comedian, actor and author John Cleese returns to Cornell University in his role as A.D. White Professor-at-Large to deliver a public lecture titled "What is Religion? Musings on the 'Life of Brian,'" Friday, Oct. 22.
In the vanguard of higher education for the past 100 years, the College of Human Ecology at Cornell will celebrate its centennial with a feast of lectures, panel discussions, exhibits and more at its Centennial Celebration Weekend on the Cornell campus.
Helena María Viramontes, assistant professor of English at Cornell, has received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature for 1995. Her books include a collection of short stories, The Moths and Other Stories, and the novel Under the Feet of Jesus.