Lawrence Kidder, a senior research associate in astronomy who helped validate the detection of gravitational waves, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Events this week include Educate the Vote, with a panel discussion and live presidential debate screening; the annual Judy's Day at Cornell Plantations; lectures, exhibitions and classic films.
Events on campus this week include a roundtable discussion of art repatriation, Indian cooking secrets at the Plantations, a classic American Cinema series, and Ke$ha concert ticket sales.
Genes in an area of the brain that is relatively similar in all vertebrates appear to regulate how organisms coordinate and shift their behaviors, a new study finds.
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.
To better predict volcanic activity, Cornell geologists have proposed a new system to discern the stages of a volcano’s unrest – as seen from perceptive satellites.
A new exhibit at Mann Library aims to introduce Cornellians to the early 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, whose impact on botany and horticulture was enormous, and runs through June.
On topics ranging from oceanic disease to restraining invasive species from distant seas, Cornell faculty joined 10,000 scientists to discuss “Envisioning Tomorrow’s Earth” at the AAAS meeting in Seattle.