Greg Budney, audio curator of the Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, traveled to Guatemala's Peten region to inventory bird species and collect audio recordings at two pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological sites. (Sept. 9, 2008)
While some reports have suggested that activated genes move to a specific nuclear location for transcription, Cornell research supports the traditional view that gene activation is not dependent on movement to special locations, or so-called 'transcription factories.'
Two members of the Cornell faculty have been awarded prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. They are Fernando Escobedo and Rasmus Nielsen, assistant professors of chemical engineering and biometrics, respectively.
Cornell's concrete canoe sundered, but the steel bridge team placed second in aesthetics at the annual ASCE student competition that featured 11 regional schools, April 13-14. (April 16, 2007)
Harvard's Sheila Jasanoff says she holds the Bush administration accountable for the 'radical skepticism' that many Americans now have toward science and technology. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Outgoing Interim President Hunter Rawlings has been honored with the renaming of the 10-year-old Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (CPRS) program for undergraduates as the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research…
Fay Vincent, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball, will deliver the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Lecture in American Culture and Baseball Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Vincent's talk, "The Baseball Mystery: Why Is It So Special?" is free and open to the public. Vincent became the eighth commissioner of baseball in 1989, following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti, and resigned in 1992. In his first tumultuous year as commissioner, he presided over the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, which was interrupted for 10 days by the Loma Prieta earthquake. During his first year, Vincent also endured an acrimonious owners lockout and oversaw the suspension of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. (September 16, 2004)
Cornell researchers have shown that catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes occur at unique sites, which could lead to a new way to make cleaner fuels. (April 16, 2009)
The first woman prime minister in Latin America, Beatriz Merino, will speak at Cornell University on 'Leadership in the 21st Century for Latin America,' Sept. 1 at 4:45 p.m. in B45 Warren Hall.