Events on campus this week include an open house for the new Cornell Intercultural Center, 'Ask an Editor,' filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, and a colloquium talk on the arts by former Provost Don Randel.
To hunt a disease that threatens eelgrass – critical seaside meadows – the NSF has awarded researchers from Cornell and its partner institutions with a three-year $1.3 million grant.
Some 500 people gathered for Cornell Silicon Valley's March 14 event to hear about designing for the future. It featured 20 speakers, including Cornell President David Skorton. (March 19, 2012)
In the fourth Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Aug. 31, historian Rebecca Flemming of the University of Cambridge focused on infertility, religion and medicine, from ancient times to the present. (Sept. 7, 2010)
Fourteen Cornell faculty members are contributing columns to The Hill, a widely read policy website in Washington, D.C. Several columns have already appeared, offering faculty an opportunity to influence government decision makers.
In a world teeming with trade and immigration controversy, Stephen Harper, the conservative former Canadian prime minister, urged a Cornell audience on March 7 not to ignore rising populist or nationalist campaigns.
Human mothers’ experience of pain and the expression of distress occur today because human ancestors who cried for help survived in greater numbers, according a hypothesis by Cornell psychologist Barbara L. Finlay.
Research on a modified protein around which DNA is wrapped sheds light on how gene regulation is linked to aging and longevity in nematodes, fruit flies and possibly humans.
A yearlong series at the Africana Studies and Research Center will explore freedom, citizenship and democracy with panels and guest speakers. The next events are Oct. 15 and Oct. 25. (Oct. 11, 2012)
Long-awaited, $700,000 upgrades to the 26-year-old Lindseth Climbing Wall in Bartels Hall will increase square footage by 25 percent, making it one of the top indoor climbing facilities in the nation.