Patsy Brannon, professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology, will serve on the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board.
The physical sciences at Cornell University jumped to No. 9 among institutions worldwide, up from No. 15 last year, according to the Times Higher Education 2015-16 World University Rankings.
Funding from the Gates Foundation will allow the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.
Scientists at Cornell’s Baker Institute for Animal Health have developed a device that helps diagnose stroke in less than 10 minutes using a drop of blood barely big enough to moisten your fingertip.
An experimental chemotherapy kills leukemia cells that are abundant in proteins critical to cancer growth, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine.
Cornell researchers investigating why HA treatments have produced mixed results discovered that a molecule, lubricin, helps anchor HA at the tissue surface, which helps to move cartilage into a low-friction regime.
Cornell researchers will travel to Paris as part of the university's delegation to the global climate change summit, COP21. Delegations from over 190 countries and more than 50,000 people will attend.
Cornell researchers from the Food and Brand Lab have found that men eat significantly more food when in the company of women, suggesting a hardwired male urge to demonstrate prowess.
A discovery by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators may settle a longstanding debate about how cancers spread, the investigators say, and may change the way many forms of the disease are treated.
