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Duodenal switch may be more effective than gastric bypass, study finds

The most frequently performed weight-loss surgery, the gastric bypass, may not be the most effective in producing weight loss, according to a preliminary study by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Cornell's solar house takes second place in national competition

After a week of tense and intense judging in the 2005 Solar Decathlon solar-house design contest, the Cornell University team took second place to the University of Colorado in the final rankings.

Search for ivory-billed woodpecker featured this Sunday on '60 Minutes'

The news of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long-believed extinct, stunned birders, scientists, conservationists, will be featured on CBS TV's '60 Minutes,' Oct. 16

New book focuses on how to market better nutrition

Just because people know that a food is nutritious does not mean they will eat it. The new book, "Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity," by Cornell University's Brian Wansink discusses how food marketers, government officials, health professionals and parents can do better. (October 12, 2005)

Duffields' Maddie's Fund gives $1.7 million to Vet College for shelter medicine program

Maddie's Fund has awarded Cornell 's College of Veterinary Medicine a $1.7 million grant over six years to support a program in shelter medicine, to be called Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell.

Tickets are on sale, online, for Whoopi Goldberg show at Cornell, Oct. 28

Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg will perform at Cornell's Barton Hall Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., during Cornell's annual Family Weekend. Tickets are available online.

Avian flu hunters at Cornell pore over bird samples in search for killer virus

Virologists at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center isolate hundreds of respiratory and intestinal tract samples each month from New York City's live bird markets in an effort to root out any types of avian influenza virus and prevent such a flu in humans.

Overseeing monitoring in New York's live bird markets

Susan C. Trock, an epidemiologist at Cornell's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory who is assigned to the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, oversees the monitoring of the 90 live bird markets in New York state for avian influenza.

Hines to head materials research center as NSF funding is renewed for six years

Melissa Hines, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years.

Students go around the world in 8 days with Shawkat Toorawa

Professor Shawkat Toorawa hosts a monthly discussion series, taking students on 'trips' to places as far-flung as the Waqwaq Islands in the Indian Ocean, or to the Republic of Georgia, or as strangely familiar (for some) as Fire Island, N.Y.

New IS major is not just about computers -- it's about people

Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information.

Preserving a movement: Video archive documents explosive era in Chinese modern art

An archive of some 360 hours of digital video footage documenting the history of contemporary Chinese art since 1985 has found a home at Cornell.