Yimon Aye, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has received the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America.
From one graduate's 90-year-old grandmother to the 2-year-old son of Ph.D. recipients, the extended families of graduating Cornellians came together on the Arts Quad, May 24. (May 24, 2008)
Good news for consumers with a sweet tooth. Cornell food scientists have reduced the sweetener stevia's bitter aftertaste by physical – rather than chemical – means, as noted in the journal Food Chemistry.
For exemplary work in planetary science, Cornell astronomy professor Jonathan Lunine will be awarded the prestigious Jean-Dominique Cassini Medal by the European Geosciences Union, the group announced Oct. 13.
On the brisk autumn morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1997, Cornell students, faculty and staff strolling by McGraw Tower noted an unusual sight: a large pumpkin impaled on the spire 173 feet up. The question remains: Whodunit?
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have improved an imaging method they developed in order to better track activity of a cell signaling enzyme that plays a role in cancer cell metastasis.
Mayfest, the Department of Music's annual chamber music series, featured Klezmer music as part of its varied programming and top international musicians on campus May 19-24. (June 3, 2010)
A team of scientists – led by a Cornell professor of natural resources – will help mountain communities in Asia recalibrate their seasonal-indicator ecological calendars to reckon the effects of climate change.
Teams of students in two College of Human Ecology courses worked together to design functional and appealing activity areas for Boys and Girls Clubs of America.