A common soil bacteria can 'smell' a wound on plants like roses and wine grapevines, which triggers the microbes to copy their DNA many times over and insert them into plant cells, causing tumors associated with crown gall disease, according to new research.
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the winners for three awards: 2005-06 Edward R. Murray Scholarship, Undergraduate Student Artist Award and Distinguished Alumni Award.
Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) promptly reached out after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast. WCMC honored its commitment to supporting health care in areas in crisis by mounting a threefold response on behalf of Katrina victims.
Officials from the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan's largest agricultural research institute, signed a memorandum of understanding Oct. 10 to foster research collaborations with Cornell University. (October 18, 2005)
'You are the unsung heroes and heroines of our society,' media star Katie Couric, co-anchor of NBC's 'Today' show, said in a moving speech to doctors and other health-care professionals gathered to discuss crucial updates and issues in gastrointestinal cancers.
Two Cornell experts on climate and atmospheric sciences agree that restoring New Orleans to the way it was isn't worthwhile. The city would need to be built differently.
Cornell's Board of Trustees and the Cornell University Council will hold their annual meeting on the Ithaca campus, Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 20-22.
The unique Cornell-affiliated Agroforestry Resource Center in the Hudson Valley teaches the region's forest owners how to reap extra cash from their land without necessarily having to cut trees down.
Medical science and business skill are often perceived as being as vastly different as Manhattan gridlock and Ithaca gorges. A new joint-degree, cross-campus program is set upon bridging these worlds.