Cornell biologists have shown how chemicals produced in a core region of the brain shared by all vertebrate animals (including humans) make males act like males, females like females -- and some males something like females.
Dr. Joseph Fins, professor of medicine in psychiatry and chief of the Medical Ethics Division at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will deliver a talk titled "Back to the Future: Cultures of Death and Dying in America," Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. in the Guerlac Room. of the Andrew Dickson White House on the Cornell campus. The keynote presentation inaugurates the Society for the Humanities at Cornell's inter-disciplinary colloquium, "Humanism at the Cross-Roads," a collaboration among faculty members at Cornell's Ithaca campus and the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. (February 17, 2004)
People who use credit cards to purchase food tend to buy more junk food than those who pay cash, finds a new Cornell study. The findings may help people cut down on impulsive shopping. (July 12, 2011)
A survey of alumni from the Cornell Entrepreneur Network found that taking even one entrepreneurship class made a graduate's attitude toward entrepreneurship much more positive. (Dec. 16, 2008)
Bill Shore, the founder and CEO of Share Our Strength, a leading organization that mobilizes industries and individuals to fight hunger and poverty, will speak at Cornell University Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 4:30 p.m. in G73 Martha Van Rensselaer (MVR) Hall. The title of Shore's talk is "The Light of Conscience: How a Simple Act Can Change Your Life," which is also the title of Shore's most recent book (Random House 2004) that explores how acts of conscience can and have changed the world. (September 09, 2004)
This summer, students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Lab, Cornell's marine field station, discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles of Shoals. (Aug. 27, 2009)