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Cornell engages with community on Roosevelt Island Day

Students, faculty and administrators from Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medical College and Cooperative Extension participated in Roosevelt Island Day, June 21.

Immune cells found to prevent bone marrow transplant rejection

Cornell researchers have identified a type of immune system cell that prevents a patient’s body from attacking donor cells after a bone marrow transplant.

New site helps predict dog breeds' hip/elbow health

The new Cornell Estimated Breeding Value website can now provide the public with information on a dog breed's propensity for a hip and elbow dysplasia (malformation).

Lunine says send humans to 'walk the red soil of Mars'

Testifying in Washington before the U.S. House of Representatives, professor Jonathan Lunine and Purdue President Mitch Daniels urged lawmakers to send astronauts to Mars.

Fracking flowback could indirectly pollute groundwater

The wastewater generated by “hydrofracking” could cause the release of tiny particles in soils that often strongly bind heavy metals and pollutants, exacerbating the environmental risks during accidental spills, research shows.

Lisa Kaltenegger searches for another 'pale blue dot'

Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, leader of a research group at the Max Planck Institute, joins the Cornell astronomy faculty as an associate professor to work on the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?

BEST program gives Ph.D.s insights into nonacademic jobs

The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.

C.C. Chu honored for bioengineering research

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering named fiber scientist C.C. Chu to its College of Fellows, an honor reserved for the world’s top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers.

Fiber Science & Apparel Design adds new B.S. degree

The Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design has added a B.S. degree in fiber science and updated its curriculum for its renamed B.S. degree in fashion design and management.

For cancer patients, sugar-coated cells are deadly

A Cornell researcher has found that a cancer cell's sugar coating causes physical changes in the cell membrane that make the cell better able to thrive.

N.Y. Sen. Nozzolio secures $3.4M to bolster food research

To spur local job creation, New York state Sen. Michael Nozzolio has secured $3.4 million in state funding to help food entrepreneurs at the agricultural experiment station in Geneva, New York.

Hidden Picasso painting revealed with Cornell help

Cornell’s synchrotron X-ray light source has played a key role in helping conservators go deeper into the mystery of a hidden painting beneath Pablo Picasso's 1901 masterpiece "The Blue Room."