Cornell professor was recently given a boost with $937,000 in federal stimulus money to create simple models to mimic and study cholesterol in cell membranes. (Sept. 21, 2009)
Four members of the College of Veterinary Medicine were honored at the Upstate New York Branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Sept. 16 in Syracuse, N.Y. (Sept. 21, 2009)
On Sept. 17 in San Francisco, artist Maya Lin unveiled the first component of her serial art installation on species loss, which uses sounds and videos from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (Sept. 17, 2009)
Cornell's first comprehensive tree inventory, conducted this summer, quantifies the ecosystem services that trees provide and helps with the university's climate plan, to be unveiled Sept. 15. (Sept. 9, 2009)
Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool, the CheShift server, to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein. (Sept. 9, 2009)
Cornell professors Steve Zinder and Dan Buckley and 20 advanced students spent six weeks on Cape Cod collecting, isolating and identifying novel microbes. (Sept. 9, 2009)
A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove an old theory that explains how the arms race between attacking insects and defended plants led to great diversity of both. (Sept. 8, 2009)
Students will have the opportunity to learn from two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large: cultural critic Rebecca Solnit and conservationist Jeffrey McNeely, who were appointed to six-year terms. (Sept. 8, 2009)
A new Cornell study reports that the gene that gives rice its highly valued fragrance stems from an ancestor of basmati rice and dispels other long-held assumptions about the origins of basmati. (Sept. 1, 2009)
