Cornell researchers leading a multi-institutional team studying an eye disease infecting house finches have received a five-year $2.5 million National Science Foundation award to continue their work.
Cornell has joined with Columbia University, New York University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and the University of Chicago in filing a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief.
Vice President Susan Murphy '73, Ph.D. '94, reflected on the place of gratitude in her life and in recent research to an audience of about 150 at the latest Soup and Hope gathering, Feb. 14.
Events on campus this week include Scottish singer Jean Redpath, CU Winds in concert, 'The Tempest' at Cornell Cinema and a public service lecture by Jane Coyne '88.
Cornell has completed field investigations and evaluated options for cleaning up its former low-level radiation disposal site in the town of Lansing, north of Tompkins County Airport. The proposed cleanup plan for the site, plus alternatives that were considered, will be described at a public meeting Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in DeWitt Middle School, Warren Road.
A potentially fatal bacterial disease that damages the liver and kidneys of dogs, humans and other animals – leptospirosis – is appearing in new forms in the United States.
The John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell University has been awarded a $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to strengthen, broaden and extend the outreach of the program.
The Afrik! Fashion Show featuring the Kusun Ensemble combined activism-inspired clothing from African cultures and styles with jazz and African music played on traditional Ghanaian instruments.
Islandica, first published in 1908, is available online to the scholarly community in a searchable, open-access format and in print. The series is an extension of the library's Fiske Icelandic Collection. (May 18, 2009)