Cornell researchers have developed a quick, inexpensive way to detect rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea that kills a half million people a year, mostly infants and young children. (May 9, 2011)
Bringing together scientists from Cornell and elsewhere, the symposium will cover a wide range of applications, from cell culture to de-icing. (May 9, 2011)
Cornell professors Jon Kleinberg and Paul McEuen, and Weill Cornell professor Carl Nathan, M.D., are among 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, announced May 3. (May 5, 2011)
A panel of four Cornellians discussed the challenges surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, May 2 at the annual, student-sponsored annual Sick in America series. (May 5, 2011)
Cornell President David Skorton, chemist Geoffrey Coates, physicist Sol Gruner and mathematician Laurent Saloff-Coste are among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (April 21, 2011)
The big winner of the Big Idea competition went to two juniors for a technology-enhanced bed net that helps prevent malaria while using solar power to help residents charge cell phones and run fans. (April 18, 2011)
Dr. Michael Latham, professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at Cornell who directed the Cornell Program in International Nutrition for 25 years, died April 1 of pneumonia at age 82. (April 13, 2011)
A new study led by Anthony Ong reports that the poorer health that widows and widowers experience is from the steep drop in positive emotions, rather than the jump in negative emotions. (April 11, 2011)
