Using supercomputers to compare the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers at Cornell have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes. (Nov. 15, 2007)
A study by a finance expert at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and three colleagues shows that mutual funds do better when the fund manager has "skin in the game" -- and gains financially when the fund prospers.
Rough roads impose a hidden tax on motorists in wear and tear, depreciation and higher fuel use that can add 20 cents a mile over the cost of driving on smooth surfaces, says Lynne Irwin, Cornell associate professor of highway…
The quality of survey work over the past decade has declined as the Internet has become an increasingly seductive tool for quick, cheap data collection, said Stanford's Jon Krosnick in a campus lecture. (March 5, 2007)
In production since 2003, the Einaudi Center has launched the International Gateway, offering a single point of access online to Cornell's international programs and the international research, teaching and outreach work of its faculty and students.
Best known for the beauty and diversity of its plant collections, Cornell Plantations reveals an abundance of other inhabitants and migrating visitors with its newest publication, An Annotated Checklist for Birds of Cornell Plantations.
H. Alex Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and newly named Kimmel Foundation Scholar in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, is assembling a research team to study the function of phospholipase D, a natural enzyme that is believed to be a crucial biochemical link in the cell-signaling cascade that permits the spread of many kinds of cancer cells.
After stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., galleries in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Florence, Italy, and two weeks at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, the artist Jason Dilley's startling exhibit on the faces and voices of AIDS, Project Face to Face, will open at the art gallery in Willard Straight Hall.
Does Mars have shifting sands? Over the past few months the camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor has provided tantalizing evidence of surface changes on the planet as sand dunes that cover large areas show signs of being moved by the Martian wind.
The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.