Graduate student Erik Patel has traveled 15 times to Madagascar in his quest to study the rare silky sifaka lemur and as director of a nonprofit he founded to protect the snowy white creatures. (Feb. 7, 2011)
It's not discrimination, but rather differences in resources attributable to career and family-related choices that set women back in science fields, Cornell researchers say. (Feb. 7, 2011)
A research group in Spain has ranked Cornell the No. 5 university in the world for its Web presence, which includes electronic access to scientific publications and other academic material. (Feb. 7, 2011)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly, gardener, artist, lecturer, reminded more than 100 attendees of the Feb. 3 Soup and Hope to slow down and help others to do the same. (Feb. 7, 2011)
Two professors disagreed with a war veteran over what the United States should do next in Afghanistan. Their roundtable discussion took place Jan. 31 in the A.D. White House. (Feb. 2, 2011)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first clinical trial in humans of brightly glowing 'Cornell Dots' to aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. (Jan. 31, 2011)
The Cornell Board of Trustees approved an across-the-board tuition increase of $1,875 for all of the university's undergraduate students for the 2011-12 academic year. (Jan. 30, 2011)
Anthony Carpi, M.S. '93, Ph.D. '97, a professor of environmental toxicology at John Jay College, will receive a 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. (Jan. 25, 2011)
Itai Cohen, William Dichtel, Tobias Hanrath, Eun-Ah Kim and Cynthia Reinhart-King are recent recipients of National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. (Jan. 19, 2011)