When Frederic Eugene Ives (1856-1937) first tried to get a job running the Cornell University photography laboratory back in 1874, he was turned down for being too young and inexperienced. But the young man's persistence paid off: he was hired on a "trial basis."
Researchers have long suspected that the chemistry of the brain largely influences personality and emotions. Now, a Cornell clinical psychologist has shown for the first time how the neurotransmitter dopamine affects one type of happiness, a personality trait and short-term, working memory.
Microscopic examination has revealed the defense secret of a tiny millipede that was entangling its enemies millions of years before porcupines and Velcro came along.
Native Americas has been named best magazine by the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), a Minnesota-based professional organization with more than 400 members. The journal also won in the categories of best editorial, best news story and best feature photo.
The West Campus Program Planning Group has recommended that Cornell establish a living-learning council of faculty, students and staff to oversee five self-governed living-learning houses for upperclass students.
The latest findings on diagnosis, prevention and treatment of canine hip dysplasia, the crippling joint disease that affects about 50 percent of some larger breeds of dogs, will be presented when veterinary researchers and practitioners gather Aug. 3-6 for an international symposium at Cornell.
Like eccentric street people who deter muggers by acting crazily, one crafty beetle has developed an equally outrageous defense: Larvae of the tortoise beetle species Hemisphaerota cyanea cover themselves with their own feces, persuading most predators to pass them by.
The Summer Olympics athletes that Dr. Michael A. Ball cares for will run three days in Georgia's July heat, jump over logs and ditches, sweat off as much as 10-15 liters of body fluid an hour and carry other athletes on their backs.
Tim Gallagher, editor of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's award-wining quarterly, Living Bird, and author of the forthcoming book, "The Grail Bird: The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker," was the first ornithologist from Cornell University to positively identify an ivory-billed woodpecker.