Three pairs of early career scientists have been named the inaugural Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech. They will work jointly under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance brain technologies.
Artist Chon Noriega, curator of a 1993 Arts Quad exhibition that led to the takeover of Day Hall by Latino students, recalled the events in a campus talk Oct. 28.
As China creates more green space near its cities, the modernization plan – relocating 250 million rural villagers into urban centers by 2025 – has a dark side: socioeconomic inequity.
Events this week include classic horror films at Cornell Cinema, a reading by four alumni writers; and an exhibit and artists' talk tracing utopian progress through architecture.
Richard Cerione, the Goldwin Smith Professor of pharmacology and chemical biology, and Claudia Fischbach, professor of biomedical engineering, discuss their collaborative research on cancer biology – the metabolic changes required for cancer development and cancer cells' interactions with other cells.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia’s minister of finance, delivered this year’s Bartels World Affairs Lecture April 10. The event was hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Southeast Asia Program.
Peter Lepage, professor of physics and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the college’s first director of education innovation.
A three-part exhibition examining the art and legacy of the Blaschka glass marine animal collection will open at Mann Library Oct. 27, launched with a talk by Drew Harvell on her new book at 4 p.m.