Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it's healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than monogamous monarchs, according to a new study.
On Dec. 5, students in Cornell's apparel design classes strutted their semester projects in a Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design fashion show.
Students must think about ethics and data management because they will need to make decisions involving them in the workplace, says Assistant Professor Erica Wagner, who teaches Introduction to Information Systems.
Cornell University photographer Kevin Stearns, 48, died Nov. 16 at Hospicare in Ithaca. Stearns was an artist with a lens whose work regularly graced the pages of the Cornell Chronicle.
Decade of Challenge: From developing artificial skin to relieving chronic pain in the elderly, research collaborations between the Ithaca and New York City campuses are improving the quality of life.
When a Malaysian friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and could not find any information about the disease in Malaysian libraries, Professor Rosemary Caffarella began an effort to fill the information gap.
This is the first of a regular column following the progress of The Campaign for Cornell, the five-year, $4 billion universitywide fund-raising effort announced in October.
Through a collection of alumni stories, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education looks at the ways universities serve the public. Renowned pediatrician Margaret Morgan Lawrence '36 is profiled in the piece.
Hard Hitter, a racehorse from Saratoga, was given a new chance on the track by Vet College doctors who performed a new procedure to correct atrial fibrillation in horses.
Susan K. Brown, professor of horticultural sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., has been named the first Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticultural Sciences.
People -- especially overweight people -- consume up to 50 percent more calories when they eat low-fat versions of snack foods than when they eat the regular versions, finds a study by Cornell's Brian Wansink.
A dozen Cornell students took a break from studying for finals and writing term papers on Dec. 4 to take a road trip to Albany to lobby for their campus and financial aid programs.
