Cornell Hillel's Board of Trustees has announced that Barbara Friedman '59 will be the first recipient of the Tanner Prize for her significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell University. The prize will be given to Friedman at an honorary luncheon April 21 at the Cornell Club in New York City.
A Cornell University-led team operating the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), the largest of the three main instruments on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has discovered a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our Milky Way galaxy. Their distance from Earth is about 11 billion light years, or 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
As the demographic tsunami known as the baby-boom generation approaches age 65, long-delayed and painful changes in Social Security and Medicare policies must be made to ensure the long-term financial stability of these vital social programs.
An apple a day can help keep breast cancer away, according to a study in rats by food scientists at Cornell. "We found that tumor incidence was reduced by 17, 39 and 44 percent in rats fed the human equivalent of one, three or six apples a day, respectively, over 24 weeks," said Rui Hai Liu, Cornell associate professor of food science and lead author of the study.
NEW YORK (Feb. 28, 2005) -- The Patient Self-Determination Act, passed by Congress in 1990, upholds the rights of patients to grant power-of-attorney or "proxy" status to a loved one when it comes to tough decisions on end-of-life care.In most cases, patients leave explicit instructions as to their wishes, should they become incapable of making these decisions themselves. But how tightly do patients really expect proxies to adhere to these instructions, given changes in prognosis? A new study from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers suggests the pact between patient and proxy is much deeper and more flexible than previously thought.
NEW YORK (Feb. 25, 2005) -- Physician-scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have made the surprising finding that a protein called BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), which is usually considered important only for cells in the nervous system, actually plays a critical role in the growth and maintenance of blood vessels.
A group of Cornell students, led by College of Human Ecology senior Ed Pettitt, is addressing this problem by conducting multi-part workshops on intergenerational communication and HIV/AIDS awareness in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell faculty members have been chosen for the 2004 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. They are T. Michael Duncan, associate professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; C. Richard Johnson Jr., professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, Department of Government.
Before the invention of printing technology by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, manuscripts survived much like gossip in a game of telephone -- depending on scribes to faithfully reproduce the works, but changing ever so slightly each time they were recopied.
Comedian and talk show host Jon Stewart has added a second show at Cornell University on Friday, March 4. Stewart, host of TV's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central, will be performing at 8 and 10 p.m.
