After undergraduates conveyed their enthusiasm for formal study in this area, the university announced in late October a new marine biology concentration for biology majors. (Nov. 16, 2011)
Events on campus in July include free lectures, concerts and performances; Staff Development Day, classic films outdoors on Willard Straight Terrace and a summer earth science symposium.
A new program will train graduate students for emerging opportunities at the intersection of sustainability, the environment and finance. (Nov. 14, 2011)
A study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years. (July 11, 2007)
Artist Lily Yeh described community art as a method to help mend broken communities Oct. 24 as part of the 40th anniversary of the Cornell-affiliated Center for Transformative Action. (Oct. 27, 2011)
Historian and Cornell lecturer Carol Kammen described Oct. 20 how Cornell's early architecture reflected the different visions Ezra Cornell and Andrew White had as Cornell founders. (Oct. 24, 2011)
CITIZEN U, a 4-H program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, is helping at-risk youth prepare for college careers.