DAYS OF OUR LIVES | Chemistry
In my first year of college, I made the misstep of taking class at the ungodly hour of 8:00 a.m. Against all advice, I, the beaming young student, was eager to tackle the demons of chemistry in the wee...
View ArticleTHE SCIENTIST | Cornell University Professor Cures Diseases Using Chemical...
Prof. Jeremy Baskin, chemistry and chemical biology and a member of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, works with his multidisciplinary team of students to combat disease in a unique...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR | On a professor’s misconduct
To the Editor:The recent union drive at Cornell, like those at other campuses across the country, has given a voice to the issues that graduate students face. One of the most pressing issues on which...
View ArticleNobel Prize Winning Technology Demonstrates Merits of Interdisciplinary...
Why are the most fundamental structural parts of the human body referred to as cells? Robert Hooke, the man who coined the term, thought they looked like cells in a monastery.But without a picture,...
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Chemistry Professor, Evolution Expert Who Serenaded Students, Dies at 80
David A. Usher, a former Cornell chemistry professor who studied the origin of life and enthusiastically sang for students in his lectures, died on Oct. 6 at his home in Dryden. He was 80 years...
View ArticleNational Medal of Science Winner, Co-Founder of Field of Chemical Ecology,...
Prof. Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus died aged 91 on April 23 in Ithaca. He was known for co-founding the field of chemical ecology and was awarded the 2014...
View ArticleDAYS OF OUR LIVES | Chemistry
In my first year of college, I made the misstep of taking class at the ungodly hour of 8:00 a.m. Against all advice, I, the beaming young student, was eager to tackle the demons of chemistry in the wee...
View ArticleTHE SCIENTIST | Cornell University Professor Cures Diseases Using Chemical...
Prof. Jeremy Baskin, chemistry and chemical biology and a member of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, works with his multidisciplinary team of students to combat disease in a unique...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | On a professor’s misconduct
To the Editor:The recent union drive at Cornell, like those at other campuses across the country, has given a voice to the issues that graduate students face. One of the most pressing issues on which...
View ArticleNobel Prize Winning Technology Demonstrates Merits of Interdisciplinary...
Why are the most fundamental structural parts of the human body referred to as cells? Robert Hooke, the man who coined the term, thought they looked like cells in a monastery.But without a picture,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chemistry Professor, Evolution Expert Who Serenaded Students, Dies at 80
David A. Usher, a former Cornell chemistry professor who studied the origin of life and enthusiastically sang for students in his lectures, died on Oct. 6 at his home in Dryden. He was 80 years...
View ArticleNational Medal of Science Winner, Co-Founder of Field of Chemical Ecology,...
Prof. Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus died aged 91 on April 23 in Ithaca. He was known for co-founding the field of chemical ecology and was awarded the 2014...
View ArticleCornell Lab Discovers New Regulatory Mechanism of Protein, Sheds Light on...
Proteins are strikingly complex macromolecules, which control every aspect of molecular function in all living organisms, making them an interesting research target. The Ando Lab studies the structure...
View ArticleNobel Prize Laureate Richard Axel to Give Racker Lecture at Cornell
Nobel Prize laureate Richard Axel is slated to deliver a lecture on “Scents and Sensibility: Representations of the Olfactory World in the Brain,” on Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in Call Auditorium at Kennedy...
View ArticleThe Science of Sight: Probing the Inner Workings of the Eye
How do we see? While this seems like a simple question with a seemingly obvious answer, how exactly a photon of light can trigger neural signals in our brains has been eluding biologists for decades....
View ArticleGUEST ROOM | Friends and Colleagues Say Goodbye to Thomas Ruttledge
Dr. Thomas Ruttledge died on Tuesday while out on one of his famous bike rides. Tom discovered his love for chemistry while an undergraduate at Wayne State University. He wrote his thesis on pathogen...
View ArticleEDITORIAL | Fire Prof. David Collum ’77, Chemistry
Editor’s Note: This editorial references anti-black violence and police brutality. It also discusses sexual assault.On Wednesday, Cornell University published on their official Twitter account a quote...
View ArticleAwaiting University Decision, Professors Prepare for Socially-Distanced Lab...
As STEM majors prepare for the fall semester in just a couple months, many wonder how their lab classes will adjust. Professors are now making contingency plans as they await President Martha E....
View ArticleContribution From Cornell Prof. Catalyzes the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
In 1998, Prof. Tristan Lambert, chemistry, then a first-year Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, was stuck on a reaction mechanism. When his research adviser Prof. David MacMillan, chemistry, Princeton...
View ArticleLEVIN | The Problem of Weed-Out Classes
Last week in CHEM 2070: General Chemistry, Prof. Stephen Lee, chemistry, broke out in a paroxysm of rage against students after an underwhelming performance on an in-class exercise. The Macarthur...
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