Some 300 students delivered energy saving bags of treats to 5,000 Tompkins County households, while 900 others worked at nonprofit and public organizations, all as part of Into the Streets. (Nov. 3, 2010)
The university is addressing 'on multiple fronts' the alleged misconduct of a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, Provost Kent Fuchs said in a letter to concerned Africana alumni April 12.
How can the Cornell campus do more when it comes to energy efficiency, recycling, reducing pollution, preserving green areas and other efforts that promote sustainability?
The map promises to provide a much more comprehensive understanding of the role of inherited DNA variation in human history, evolution and disease and the best methods to use to sequence DNA. (Nov. 1, 2010)
For the sake of public safety and project efficiency, the Thurston Avenue Bridge will remain closed to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic until the connections between the new arches and the existing bridge are completed, the…
A Cornell University astronomer is using new data on cosmic microwave background radiation to visualize what happened in the first two-trillionths of a second after the big bang and to try to explain the 'dark energy' that is making the universe expand faster than expected.
Students from 11 top-tier U.S. business schools will compete in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge next Thursday and Friday, April 1 and 2, at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The competition will showcase the stock picking and presentation skills of MBA students who hope to be hired as stock analysts after they graduate. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team an award of $1,500. (March 26, 2004)
Legislators, politicians, educators, governmental agencies, business leaders, judges and others regularly attempt to make decisions based on sound scientific research. Translating that research to sound policy decisions can be challenging.
Scientists from Weill Medical College of Cornell have discovered the mechanism by which a renewable source of autologous organ-specific adult bone marrow stem cells may be recruited. While embryonic stem cellsthat is, stem cells derived from embryoshave been the subject of much recent attention and ethical debate, stem cells derived from adult bone marrow may prove to be even more suitable for therapeutic purposes.
Three Cornell seniors and one alumna receive Mellon Fellowships for graduate study. The recipients of the prestigious award, which includes a $13,500 stipend plus tuition and fees.