According to a recent poll from Cornell, nearly half of New Yorkers support stem cell research and would approve a proposition to establish a state-funded institute dedicated to this emerging field of science.
United Auto Workers Local 2300 and Cornell announced July 1 that the union, which represents more than 1,150 Cornell service and maintenance employees on Cornell's main campus, has ratified a new, four-year agreement with the university.
The Alice H. Cook House and Becker North, two new residence halls on West Campus, have been granted green-building certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ) program.
Mann Library is on the verge of selling its 100th Library in a Box, formally called The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. The equivalent of an entire room's worth of print journals all compressed onto CDs provides some 2.2 million pages of academic articles to 100 institutions in 50 developing countries, from Vietnam, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Senegal, Ethiopia and Malawi to Honduras, Bolivia and Peru.
Cornell is forging ahead with its environmental programs in sustainable development. Indeed, projects from recycling to energy saving are now recognized as critical issues by the university's leadership and the campus is on the brink of emerging as a global leader in sustainability.
Researchers have learned how a common fish found along the West Coast can hum and hear outside sounds at the same time. The study marks the first time that scientists have found a direct line of communication between the part of a vertebrate's brain that controls the vocal muscle system and the part of the ear that hears sound.
A paper co-authored by Vithala Rao has won the 2005 Robert D. Buzzell Best Working Papers Award from the Marketing Science Institute (MSI). Rao is the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management and professor of marketing and quantitative methods at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Carrie E. Davenport, J.D. '05, Cornell Law School, is the recipient of the 2005 Edward L. Dubroff Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation for her paper 'A 'Brutal Need': How Application of Expedited Removal to Potential Refugees Violates the Fifth Amendment.'
Media artist and activist Brooke Singer will speak on 'Reshaping the Wireless Commons' in a public lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Cornell's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Jim Houck, the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and developer and principal investigator for the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 22 for his work on the spectrograph.
Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University, is a member of a global team of scientists that has been offered a $19.7 million grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. The team is working on devising and deploying novel genetic strategies to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever.
A gene enabling an insect virus to enter new cells was likely stolen from a host cell and adapted for the virus's use, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute report.
