Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will lecture on nuclear energy post-Fukushima on campus April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall.
On May 19, four student start-up teams won $100,000 pre-seed funding and one year of co-working space in the Tata Innovation Center on Roosevelt Island.
Freshmen at three universities this fall will be asked to participate in a study to determine how roommates and social networks affect students' mental health. (May 4, 2009)
The annual "Bits on Our Minds" (BOOM) event displays projects from across campus that use digital technology - from an automated beer-brewing system to video games and apps not yet on the market.
Law professors Gerald Torres of Cornell and Lani Guinier of Harvard will deliver the Robert L. Harris Jr. ADVANCEments in Science Distinguished Lecture, "The Miner's Canary and Black Lives Matter" April 18.
How the safety of "Frankenfoods" and genetically modified organisms or World Bank economic advice become political hotbeds are examples of what the Cornell Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) will explore in its third theme…
An international team of researchers, including a Cornell cognitive scientist, reports physiological evidence showing how the brain combines words into phrases in real time during reading.
Chill with impunity through this winter’s extreme cold – and brace for the next summer heat wave, when fiery temperatures and air pollution conspire to fill hospitals and morgues.