A gene enabling an insect virus to enter new cells was likely stolen from a host cell and adapted for the virus's use, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute report.
Claude Steele, professor of psychology at Stanford University, will present the 1995-1996 Flemmie Kittrell Lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
To find out how people beyond U.S. borders view the war in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden or the latest bioterrorist threats, open this web page.
Publication in the journal Nature is a coup for any research team, but Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have earned recognition in the journal four times in recent months with landmark findings.
Concerned that changes in climate and landscape are affecting birds in North America, scientists at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society are asking volunteers across the continent to log on Feb. 18-21.
Events on campus include a visit by Keith Olbermann, concerts by CU Chorus and Anat Cohen, lectures by Lowery Stokes Sims, Eliot A. Cohen and Scott Peters, and a new museum exhibit. (March 17, 2011)
Events this week include: Cornell Cinema movies; Spring Garden sale, bike race, games designs, higher education in Africa, Mayfest music, Cornell Prison Education Program and wildflowers.
James Yee told a campus audience April 5 of the human rights violations at Guantanamo prison and of his arrest and release documented in his book, 'For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.' (April 6, 2007)
The number of children living in poverty in the United States is down to 16 percent --the lowest in 20 years. The reason is largely that more mothers -- especially single mothers -- are working and not because of changes in family structure, reports Cornell University's Daniel Lichter, in Social Sciences Quarterly. (November 28, 2005)
Martha Fineman, the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School, has been awarded the Harry Kalven Prize by the Law and Society Association (LSA).