A day after appearing in Washington, D.C., to be announced as the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in July 2015, President David Skorton was back on campus discussing his priorities at Cornell.
A new study traces hypertension to a newfound cellular source in the brain and shows that treatments targeting this area can reverse the disease. (Dec. 17, 2012)
A Cornell team finished second in the 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest, and one student on that team also has advanced to the finals of the Google Code Jam. (Nov. 4, 2008)
Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning will be getting a new building that will be a contemporary architectural gem -- designed by the firm of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas.
Brian Crane, Barbara Crawford, Rui Hai Liu and Rosemary Stevens have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society.
A study done by the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center involving nearly 17,000 U.S. smokers confirms that women are twice as likely to develop lung cancer as men.
Michael Huyghue '84 and Seth Payne '97 threw the team a party in downtown Jacksonville to celebrate the team's visit to their city and to wish them luck in the tournament. (March 19, 2010)
Marjolein van der Meulen, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, is featured in a new book, "Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers," published by the Extraordinary Women Engineers…