The Farm Animal Hospital of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine hosted a free, one-day seminar Dec. 8 to inform dairy cattle owners about diagnostics and treatments available at the hospital. (Dec. 17, 2007)
Emergency preparedness was a priority during the fall semester. Projects included enrolling the campus in a new messaging system, offering flu vaccines, and developing plans for winter weather and a potential influenza pandemic. (Dec. 14, 2007)
In the course Textiles, Apparel and Innovation, students partnered with local senior citizens to develop new products, including an electronic pillbox and a multipurpose walker complete with GPS tracking. (Dec. 14, 2007)
If world leaders do not immediately engage in a race against time to save the Earth's coral reefs, these vital ecosystems will not survive the global warming and acidification predicted for later this century. (Dec. 13, 2007)
The Southeast Asia Program is working to assist about 50 ethnic minority refugees from Burma (also called Myanmar) now living in Ithaca and other Burmese who are resettling in upstate New York cities. (Dec. 13, 2007)
Twenty-nine Kazakhstani officials attended a meeting planned by the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs and the Department of City and Regional Planning on the topic of administrative reform. (Dec. 12, 2007)
Cornell has been selected by the New York State Health Foundation to be one of five institutions to address the crisis in health insurance that has left roughly 2.2 million New Yorkers without coverage. (Dec. 12, 2007)
Cornell researchers are using advanced genetic techniques to better understand the relationship between the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and the human immune system defense cells that engulf them. (Dec. 12, 2007)
Alan Hedge, international authority on office ergonomics, studies a chair that undulates, a mouse that vibrates, a monitor attached to a movable arm and other newfangled workstations. (Dec. 12, 2007)
Cornell's new Performance and Speakers Bureau, sponsored by the Einaudi Center, coordinates international organizations across campus to train student presenters to speak or perform at area schools. (Dec. 11, 2007)
Anthony Ong, assistant professor of human development, studies positive psychology, believing that people can mindfully choose to focus on their positive emotions, which may lead to promoting healing and easing pain. (Dec. 11, 2007)
Joe Laquatra, the Hazel E. Reed Human Ecology Extension Chair in Family Policy has been appointed by N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer to the state's first task force focused on health issues associated with toxic mold. (Dec. 11, 2007)
