Four Cornell University faculty members are among this year's recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Awards. The Faculty Early Career Development Program is NSF's most prestigious awars for new faculty members.
Cornell materials scientists have come up with a novel technique that could vastly improve the performance and yield of silicon microelectronic and optical devices, which are used in semiconductor integrated circuits that power everything from computers to telephones.
Does exposure to certain pesticides increase the risk of breast cancer? Is there a link between childhood obesity and adult breast cancer? If human estrogen promotes some kinds of breast cancer, can phytoestrogens from plants possibly offer protection?
Naked, immobile and conspicuously colored, the squash beetle pupae would be easy picking for insect predators if they hadn't long ago perfected a science called combinatorial chemistry.
It may not be a household concept, but integrated pest management is the talk of the farm. About 90 percent of the state's growers or producers use at least one form of of it.
Three Cornell undergraduates win Goldwater Scholarships for science and math. The national Goldwater Scholarship program was established in 1986’ in the name of former Arizona Sen. Barry M. Goldwater.
How do the people who run the world's best hotels and restaurants scout out new talent? They come to Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and take careful notes.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How should pivotal historical events be recorded? Depicted? Commemorated? "Recent controversies in public history, from the 'Disney's America' theme park to the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay exhibit, have highlighted the contested nature of collective memory," says Cornell University graduate student Jeffrey Hyson. Such debates are themselves powerful reminders of the uneasy alliance of history and memory, he said. That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held on the Cornell campus April 11 through 13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus. The conference is being sponsored by the Department of History, Society for the Humanities, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and Graduate History Association.
The first detailed global mapping of an asteroid has found that most of the larger rocks strewn across the body were ejected from a single crater in a meteorite collision perhaps a billion years ago.
Astronomers will release today (Dec. 17) the clearest Hubble Space Telescope images of mysterious cosmic spouts - known as FLIERs - emanating from distant objects that once were stars like our sun.