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Physics

Ultrashort cell-free DNA reveals health of organ transplants

Cornell Chronicle

When cells die, whether through apoptosis or necrosis, the DNA and other molecules found in those cells don’t just disappear. They wind up in the blood stream, where degraded bits and pieces can be extracted.

Curing Disease

Meinig Investigator sees path to disease cure in lipids

Arts & Sciences Communications

The key to curing multiple sclerosis may well lie in the mysterious signaling of lipids, a major component of cells. 

International Linguistics Conference

Cornell hosts international linguistics conference

A&S Communications

Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 15), an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17.The conference theme, “Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation,” will address sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.

Neuroscience

Early career scientists named as inaugural Mong Fellows in Neurotech

A&S Communications

Researchers in the collaboration between the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Engineering will work on technologies and new tools to reveal the inner workings of the brain.

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduates ponder ethical questions in research workshop

A&S Communications

A summer workshop helped undergrads consider the challenges of responsible research.

Outreach to High School Students

A&S departments share career options with high school students

A&S Communications

“I’ve always been really interested in astronomy, so I was curious what kinds of careers there might be in the field,” said Sophia Delpapa, a high school senior from Ontario County who attended the recent 4-H Career Explorations event on campus, sponsored by the state 4-H foundation, part of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Global Reach

Cornell launches new humanities collaboration in China

A&S Communications

The Cornell Summer School in Theory explored contemporary international debates in media studies, visual studies, literary studies, philosophy and contemporary art.

Campus Moves

College departments and programs now in new locations

Arts & Sciences Communications

With the opening of Klarman Hall, colleagues in departments that were spread out across campus can now collaborate more easily. 

China & Asia-Pacific Studies

Faculty comment on South China Sea verdict

Arts & Sciences Communications

On July 12, a United Nations tribunal ruled on an arbitration case involving contested territory in the South China Sea. Government professors Allen Carlson and Jessica Chen Weiss, both on the faculty of the China-Asia Pacific Studies (CAPS) Program, reflected on the verdict.

Archaeology

Cornell-led research resolves long-debated Mesopotamia timeline

Cornell Chronicle

For decades, scholars have debated about the chronology of this period, sometime being as much as 150 years or more apart.