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Investment office to move to New York City by late 2017

The Office of University Investments will move from Ithaca to New York City by late 2017. The relocation "puts us closer to the world capital markets," said Executive Vice President and CFO Joanne DeStefano.

Freezing technique is effective alternative to lumpectomy

A deep-freezing technique known as cryoablation is a viable alternative to traditional surgery in many early-stage breast cancers according to Weill Cornell Medicine research.

Film, panel recall 1969 occupation of Willard Straight

In Willard Straight Hall's Cornell Cinema, alumni, faculty, students and members of the Ithaca community gathered Sept. 23 to remember the 1969 occupation of the building in which they sat.

Original Africana site dedicated at ceremony

A plaque commemorating the original home of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center at 320 Wait Ave., destroyed by fire in 1970, was unveiled Sept. 24 following a dedication ceremony.

Campus labs find ways to curb water use during drought

Cornell's laboratories have jumped into the water-saving pool, as building managers and campus wet lab technicians face the drought.

Rawlings updates GPSA on health care, child care, housing

At the Sept. 26 meeting of the GPSA, Interim President Hunter Rawlings talked about the decrease in student health plan rates for dependents, an increase in child care grants and progress on a new housing community.

New imaging method developed for lipid with many functions

Cornell researchers report a new method for imaging a lipid with many functions, which could solve the mystery of how it plays so many roles.

NSF grant to fund entrepreneurial growth, innovation

The Upstate New York Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation to lead entrepreneurship and commercialization support programs.

Now is the lightest you will weigh all year

For the average person, the time before the start of the holiday season is the low point in an annual weight gain pattern that peaks during the holidays and takes nearly half a year to fully shed.

New book examines powerful Peruvian church murals

'Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes' by Ananda Cohen Suarez examines Peruvian church wall paintings of the 16th through the early 19th centuries

Ph.D. student lands Microsoft research fellowship for women

Alane Suhr, a first-year doctoral student in the field of computer science, has received one of 10 Microsoft Research Women’s Fellowships awarded this year.

Cornell research points the way to better hard cider

Consumer interest in hard cider in North America has surged and Cornell research is revealing ways apples grown with specific orchard management practices can produce more desirable hard cider.