A $1.7 million NIH grant will be used to better understand why teens are prone to taking risks. The study will use an MRI to compare brains of teens and adults when faced with risky decisions.
Cornell University Library is offering an internship program that aims to expose Cornell graduate students to new frontiers in digital humanities work.
As faculty hiring seasons swings into full force, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has committed funding to help bring superior diverse talent to the faculty, allowing departments to recruit more aggressively.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will launch an Intensive Arabic Program in the fall, with a full semester of language study on the Cornell campus and a semester living and studying in Jordan. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Two Cornell Tech master's graduates have won a World Congress on Information Technology award for their computer-vision invention, Uru, which projects advertising onto blank surfaces in a video.
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff gathered on the Arts Quad to mingle at the second annual Welcome Weekend Picnic on the Quad, Aug. 23, the first day of classes. (Aug. 28, 2007)
The speech Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from South Africa's Robben Island prison; articles in African newspapers about the AIDS epidemic; favorite stories of Nigerian schoolchildren: These are some of the primary source materials about Africa on a new Cornell outreach Website.
Fifty Chinese high school students in the Cornell China College Preparatory Program spent the summer on campus engaged in academic work and cultural and language immersion. (Aug. 4, 2008)
Cornell has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant to become one of three new University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced.
Following a multimillion-dollar makeover, the Barton Laboratory Greenhouse was dedicated Oct. 30 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York.