Researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medical College have received a $1.34 million grant to study whether obesity changes breast tissue in a manner similar to tumors, thereby permitting the disease to develop.
The chair of the Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been endowed by renowned architect Richard Meier, B.Arch. '56.
Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, expressed the university's condolences on the deaths of Clayton DeFisher and Adam Frey during the university's winter break.
While developed countries have long been blamed for Earth’s rising greenhouse gas emissions, Cornell researchers now predict when developing countries will contribute more to climate change than advanced societies: 2030.
Cornell's tradition of cross-disciplinary study will be central to the College of Business' advantage against its peers, according to a committee that is helping shape the new college.
Chinelo Onyilofor ’15, a dual major in chemistry and art history who will graduate Saturday, credits the liberal arts with expanding her combine subjective and objective disciplines to solve problems.
Jonathan Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State in South Africa, will give three talks on higher education and South Africa while on campus Oct. 21-23.
As the warm temperatures of spring start a little earlier each year due to climate change, bees and plants are keeping pace, according to a new study. (Dec. 12, 2011)