In an Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Sept. 27, Rice University's Cary Wolfe asserted that biopolitics is an area in which the body, both human and non-human, is the object of political power. (Oct. 7, 2011)
The drawn-out process for diagnosing Lyme disease could become a thing of the past – good news for the thousands of people each year who get the tick-borne illness.
To study the effects of global warming, scientists will begin collaborating this summer on the New York Climate-Change Science Clearinghouse, a comprehensive, web-based reference, map and database.
The completely reconstructed Upson Hall – for 60 years an anchor on the Engineering Quad and home to the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – has been certified LEED Platinum.
A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
Historian Gordon F. Sander '72's book, "The Hundred Day Winter War," is a comprehensive account of Finland's heroic stand in 1939-1940 against the Red Army.