Researchers describe how brain cells process antidepressants, cocaine and amphetamines. The findings could lead to more targeted medications for psychiatric diseases and addiction. (Sept. 17, 2008)
Brew beer better. Clean hotel rooms better. Monitor the health of your horse better. These were a few of the pitches at the Southern Tier Hardware Accelerator’s first Demo Day, Aug. 13.
After 32 years of converting the 3x5 cards into digital records, Cornell Library's online catalog is complete, representing every one of the estimated 6 million titles and 7.5 million volumes. (Oct. 1, 2007)
Merrill Scholars' high school teachers and Cornell faculty members were recognized by President David Skorton and the college deans at a luncheon and ceremony at Willard Straight Hall May 20.
The computer-modeling accomplishment - which is expected to aid the future design of tiny insect-like flying machines and should dispel the longstanding myth that "bumblebees cannot fly.
Juris Hartmanis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at Cornell University, has been appointed assistant director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk. (Dec. 2, 2009)
Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics and computing and information science at Cornell, has been named a 2002 fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Complex computing problems as different as modeling Earth's climate system, predicting effects of regulatory change in the dairy industry or serving a semester's worth of lecture videos to student dormitories will operate on a scalable distributed network of powerful desktop computers, thanks in part to a $6 million grant from Intel Corp. to Cornell.
Jessica Rutkoski was one of five women presented with the Women in Triticum award at the the May 30-31 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia. (June 2, 2010)