If it seems that women don't like video games, perhaps it is because game designers don't often design with women in mind. A computer game-design team at Cornell is helping to change that.
An all-female team of Cornell students…
The campus's emergency alert systems underwent a full-scale test April 30 that was 'three-quarters successful,' according to Cornell officials. Another round of tests is slated for May 28. (May 22, 2008)
Jane Goodall, one of the world's best known scientists, will return to Cornell this fall as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, joining four other noted scholars -- Roger Chartier, Seyyed Nasr, George L. Mosse, Anthony Seeger -- to deliver more than a dozen free, public lectures during the semester.
A revised Campus Code of Conduct was discussed Oct. 2 at a public forum in Willard Straight Hall. The Codes and Judicial Committee is soliciting further comments on the code until Oct. 15. (Oct. 4, 2007)
More than 150 participants heard from Cornell faculty and emergency doctors about wilderness medicine and survival during the Northeast Wilderness Medicine Conference, Sept. 26-28, at Cornell. (Oct. 3, 2007)
A four-year, $650,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) will help Cornell University biologist W. Lee Kraus, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, and his laboratory group learn more about how the hormone estrogen regulates the growth of cells in the human body -- including cells that develop into breast cancers. Kraus credits a graduate student in his Cornell laboratory, Mi Young Kim, with the discovery of two enzymes that apparently act on the hormone-binding proteins that bind estrogens inside cells. The Cornell researchers now hope to learn how these estrogen receptor-modifying enzymes, called an acetylase and a deacetylase, alternately add or remove acetyl groups at the receptor. They also hope to learn what effect these modifications have on the activity of the receptors in normal and cancerous human mammary cells. (November 19, 2002)
Eloy Rodriguez, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell, has been named the fifth annual E.E. Just Lecturer by the American Society for Cell Biology.
Applying the 'polluter pays' principle, a Cornell ecologist and author suggests a way to improve the environmental sustainability of agriculture: Levy taxes according to food-chain ranking so that products with the worst environmental impact cost the most.