Paul Bowser, professor of aquatic animal medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service for 'consistent superior service.' (July 16, 2007)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ranks first in New York City and sixth in the nation, according to the 2007 U.S.News & World Report "America's Best Hospitals" survey. It is the seventh consecutive year that NewYork-Presbyterian is the only New York metropolitan-area hospital on the magazine's "Honor Roll," which lists the top 18 hospitals nationally based on reputation, mortality rates and other patient-care-related factors.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will visit Cornell Law School as its Distinguished Jurist in Residence during the week of Oct. 22. (July 12, 2007)
Low-skilled services aren't the only occupations shifting overseas, says the ILR School's Sarosh Kuruvilla. His latest research shows that many high-skilled U.S. jobs are being outsourced to India. (July 12, 2007)
The interdisciplinary approach of the June workshop, 'Teaching World Culture Through Art,' was intended to encourage local art teachers to more fully integrate international studies into their curricula. (July 12, 2007)
When it comes to the economy, the New York state of mind is deteriorating, according to the 2007 Empire State Poll, a yearly survey conducted by Cornell's Survey Research Institute. (July 12, 2007)
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)
