Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg will perform at Cornell's Barton Hall Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., during Cornell's annual Family Weekend. Tickets are available online.
Virologists at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center isolate hundreds of respiratory and intestinal tract samples each month from New York City's live bird markets in an effort to root out any types of avian influenza virus and prevent such a flu in humans.
Susan C. Trock, an epidemiologist at Cornell's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory who is assigned to the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, oversees the monitoring of the 90 live bird markets in New York state for avian influenza.
Melissa Hines, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years.
Professor Shawkat Toorawa hosts a monthly discussion series, taking students on 'trips' to places as far-flung as the Waqwaq Islands in the Indian Ocean, or to the Republic of Georgia, or as strangely familiar (for some) as Fire Island, N.Y.
Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information.
International relations scholar Peter Katzenstein advocates in his latest book a geopolitical view of the globe as a world of regions organized by American power.
The Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock, an invention by Adam Hocherman, an MBA student at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, promises to get students to class on time every day of the week. The
