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.
Slope Radio, Cornell's online radio station and an established campus presence after one semester of operation, plans to expand into new offices and FM and television broadcasting in 2007.
Cornell's Office of Web Communications has created a central clearinghouse for Cornell multimedia, with video and audio presentations of major campus news and events.
Teams of students in two College of Human Ecology courses worked together to design functional and appealing activity areas for Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell have made a surprising discovery about high-temperature cuprate superconductors, finding that a non-superconducting cuprate has the same electron energy structure.
