When expectant mothers consume sufficient amounts of the nutrient choline during pregnancy, their offspring gain enduring cognitive benefits, a new Cornell study suggests.
The astronomical meets gastronomical: While it resembles a chestnut or ravioli, the new Cassini spacecraft portrait of this extraterrestrial Rorschach is Saturn's small moon, Pan.
Thousands of people in the Ithaca area have computers, and some have two or three between work and home. The Cornell-Ithaca Partnership (C-IP) is hoping that as these users upgrade their equipment, many will choose to donate their still-functional computers to local schoolchildren from low-income families. "When we recently assessed how many students at the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School [BJM] do not have access to computers at home, we discovered a resounding 57 kids. In today's educational landscape, a child without a computer is a child who may not succeed," says Tish A. Pearlman, program coordinator of C-IP. (November 14, 2002)
Cornell and the Technion have received numerous expressions of support from entrepreneurs and academics in their partnership bid for the New York City Tech Campus. The proposal is due Oct. 28.
This “Rise and Fall of ‘Civilization’” class, taught by Professor Adam T. Smith, examines traditional archaeological topics, partly by looking at our current civilization and imagining the Cornell campus 1,000 years from now.
A Cornell multidisciplinary team devised a way to get a "time-lapse" look at the early formation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles, from six-sided crystals all the way to 12-sided quasicrystals.
Cornell will host "Sustainability in Asia: Partnerships for Research and Implementation," a conference about sustainability research and community engagement in Hong Kong, April 6-7.
A new book co-written by Morten Christiansen offers a revolutionary, unifying framework to understand the processing, acquisition and evolution of language.