A company based on Cornell technology that specializes in sentiment and opinion analysis is the latest to earn investment support from the Johnson School's student-run venture fund, BR Ventures. (May 4, 2009)
Nearly 49 percent of the Cornell Graduate School's 1,995 new students this year are from other countries, and admissions are more selective and competitive, with a 5 percent jump in applications. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Scott Emr has kept the institute focused on hypothesis-driven science that uses genetics, biochemistry, proteomics and bioinformatics to answer fundamental questions in cell biology. (Sept. 12, 2012)
The eighth annual Workshop and Conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases June 2-6 will address the emergence and transmission of infectious microorganisms in ecosystems. (May 24, 2010)
With great expectations, the $162 million, 263,000-square-foot building designed by architect Richard Meier will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move in this month. (June 6, 2008)
Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences has announced the recipients of its biannual small-grant award program for interdisciplinary research and conference support.
The genetic mechanism that through millennia of evolution has created plump and juicy fruits and vegetables could also be involved in the proliferation of human cancer cells. Plant biologists and computer scientists at Cornell University have essentially made a direct genetic connection between the evolutionary processes involved in plant growth and the processes involved in the growth of mammalian tumors.
“150 Years of Cornell Student Fashion” opens Feb. 2 in the Human Ecology Building. Part of the sesquicentennial celebration, the exhibit displays ensembles dating back to 1865.