Viral gene studies at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine aim to learn how some fish fight skin cancer and how retroviruses function in the development and regression of tumors.
Trac Minh Vu has created an experimental video, Nha Ba Nguoi (The House of Three), which contains footage from a trip he made to Vietnam with his mother during winter break. The 18-day journey marked the first time he had been in the country since emigrating to America as an infant with his parents in 1975.
Judith Surkis, a graduate student in the Department of History at Cornell, has received a Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most respected academic honorary society.
Three Cornell researchers have won Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1996. They are among 158 artists, scholars and scientists from among 2,791 applicants to be chosen for the honor.
It may not be a household concept, but integrated pest management is the talk of the farm. About 90 percent of the state's growers or producers use at least one form of of it.
Claude Steele, professor of psychology at Stanford University, will present the 1995-1996 Flemmie Kittrell Lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
Margaret J. Geller, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will deliver the Bethe Lectures at Cornell University the week of May 6.
Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly colored male animals are advertising something of importance to their prospective mates. Should the female assume the gaudiest male has parasite-resistance genes that will benefit her offspring?
