Science Spectrum magazine has named the top minorities in science for 2005, which includes two Cornell researchers: Kevin T. Kornegay, Cornell associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Cornell Broadband Communications Research laboratory, and Lisa Staiano-Coico, dean of the College of Human Ecology.
Similar to how a cricket chirps by rubbing together sound-making apparatus in its wings, male club-winged manakins use specially adapted feathers in each wing to make a violinlike hum, according to a Cornell University ornithologist in the July 29 issue of Science. The sound and how the bird produces it are unique among vertebrates.
The stereotype is that students head for Florida on spring break, but a small group of Cornell engineering students went a bit farther south earlier this year for a more serious purpose: bringing clean water to a small rural village in Honduras.
Maury Tigner, professor emeritus of physics and director of the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell, is one of 12 winners of the American Physical Society's (APS) 2005 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award for work on boost phase intercept systems for national missile defense.
The Lab of Ornithology's Citizen Science Program at Cornell University is the largest program of its kind in the world. It puts 35,000 volunteers from around the world to work collecting data on the behavior and characteristics of birds.
Cornell educators are introducing 12 local fifth-grade students to a world where games are serious and math, science and technology are fun. As part of the Ithaca Youth Bureau's three-week College Discovery Program, the students performed chemistry and physics experiments arranged by the Cornell Center for Materials Research and explored virtual computer worlds in classes at the Cornell Theory Center.
As a respite between the stressful two-year accelerated premedical school program completed this past spring and beginning medical school this fall, seven students from the Weill Cornell Medical College in Doha, Qatar (WCMC-Q) are spending eight weeks this summer conducting research.
Rising prices at gas pumps are a reminder that the world's supply of fossil fuels is shrinking and may be depleted by as soon as the year 2025, said presenters at an international conference on sustainable technology and new-market creation held at Cornell July 20-22.
The sixth annual Nanobiotechnology Symposium, slated for Aug. 15 at Cornell, will focus on medical applications of nanobiotechnology, the science of fabricating devices at scales as small as a few billionths of a meter for studying biological systems.
NEW YORK -- At an international symposium June 25, Weill Cornell Medical College unveiled the latest star on its prostate cancer surgical team: a robot named da Vinci. The robot emulates the anatomic precision of its namesake to offer a new, minimally invasive and less compromising approach to prostatectomy, the removal of the prostate gland.
NEW YORK -- Weill Cornell Medical College, together with The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will receive $50 million over three years from The Starr Foundation to develop new resources and expertise in stem cell research, helping to position the three institutions' scientists as leaders in this competitive new field.
NEW YORK -- At one time, cancer threatened their lives. But bone marrow and blood stem cell transplants changed their prognosis to one of smooth sailing and sunny skies. So a cruise around Manhattan on July 10 was a fitting celebration for leukemia survivors -- alumni of Weill Cornell Medical Center's Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplant Program -- and their families, doctors and nurses.
