Yung-Fu Chang, director of the infectious disease research program at Cornell, warned that Lyme disease was on the rise this year and offered ways to protect people and pets. (March 19, 2010)
The work may lead to the development of new insecticides to disrupt the mosquito's renal system, which contributes to a mosquito's survival after feeding on blood. (March 3, 2010)
Chosen from an international pool of candidates, epidemiologist Ynte Schukken was nominated for the award by faculty at the University of Ghent's College of Veterinary Medicine. (Feb. 24, 2010)
In testing for the University Waste Management Facility project, a system malfunction resulted in a discharge of wastewater into a sanitary sewer. The team is taking corrective actions. (Feb. 22, 2010)
Veterinary epidemiologist Yrjo Grohn has a new grant to study the bug that is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitals, using what he's learned from studying pathogens in farm animals.
A Literary Luncheon at the home of President David Skorton and Professor Robin Davisson will feature University Librarian Anne Kenney speaking on Ernest Hemingway's literary legacy in Cuba on Feb. 10. (Feb. 1, 2010)
A deadly fish virus - viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus - first discovered in the Northeast in 2005, has been found for the first time in Lake Superior. The virus is now in all of the Great Lakes.
The board of trustees has approved a plan that calls for a 4.5 percent tuition increase for undergrads in the endowed colleges and an increase of the same dollar amount for the state-supported colleges.
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has devised a new way to make vaccines that promises to prevent diseases much more cheaply. (Jan. 25, 2010)
