Art department faculty members found a new audience for their work in June with exhibits in China, thanks to an evolving partnership between the department and Tsinghua University in Beijing. (July 11, 2007)
Farmers will grapple with new and aggressive crop pests, summer heat stress and water problems that could strain family farms to the limit, warns David Wolfe, a Cornell expert on the effects of climate change on agriculture. (July 11, 2007)
A study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years. (July 11, 2007)
This week a 32-year-old Guatemalan man is getting a second chance to gain his freedom -- and possibly save his life -- thanks to the help of Cornell Law School's Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. (July 10, 2007)
As Cornell's Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering enters its second century, a professor emeritus has chronicled its early roots in agricultural studies and its many changes over the years.
Art critic, editor and curator Patricia Phillips has been appointed art department chair, effective July 1. She succeeds Franklin Spector, who will continue teaching following a sabbatical. (July 6, 2007)
The Cornell Theory Center has been reorganized and renamed in a move designed to make its high-performance computing resources more efficient and effective for researchers and to take advantage of opportunities for research funding. (July 6, 2007)
The Olin Library exhibit runs through mid-August and showcases a wide variety of government maps, including the U.S. Geological Survey's topographic quadrangles and maps produced from satellite imagery. (July 5, 2007)
More than 450 teens participated in Cooperative Extension's 4-H Career Explorations program, which gave the students a taste of college, a glimpse into some future careers and a strategy for preventing obesity. (July 5, 2007)
The research, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, examined the role of an enzyme called a helicase that plays a major role in separating DNA strands so that replication of a single strand can occur. (July 2, 2007)
Leaders from industry, government and academia gathered at Cornell June 24 to 26 for the 2007 New York Renewable Energy Summit, focusing on renewable energy research and business development. (June 29, 2007)
A residential house now under construction on Cornell's West Campus will be named in honor of the late William T. Keeton, Cornell professor of biology from 1958-80. Keeton House will open in August 2008. (June 29, 2007)
