The Cornell Council for the Arts is taking applications through Oct. 21 for grants to fund arts projects by students, faculty, staff, departments and organizations on campus.
The Museum of the Earth has a fossil preparation lab, with a window so visitor can watch the paleontologists - including several Cornell students. (Sept. 23, 2011)
Filmmaker and biologist Randy Olson, on campus Sept. 18-21, met with various student groups and scientists to give advice on how to convey science through 'storytelling.' (Sept. 22, 2011)
Three researchers have been awarded a five-year Transformative Research Projects Award of about $3.04 million to fight cancer by targeting the regulation of metabolic enzymes. (Sept. 21, 2011)
Paul Alivisatos, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of nanotechnology at University of California-Berkeley, is this year's Hans A. Bethe lecturer. (Sept. 21, 2011)
Niklaus Largier, of the University of California-Berkeley, spoke on aesthetic experience and possibility in a College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Sept. 13. (Sept. 19, 2011)
New research finds that while subjects in a nationwide survey identified happiness as a goal, other goals - such as a higher income - may lead them to choose money over happiness. (Sept. 16, 2011)
