Medical science and business skill are often perceived as being as vastly different as Manhattan gridlock and Ithaca gorges. A new joint-degree, cross-campus program is set upon bridging these worlds.
New York state has awarded a $1 million grant to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to help fund the construction of a clean and efficient cogeneration plant and help lower the hospital's energy costs.
Real lives. Real stories. Real change. The Cornell United Way campaign is not simply a feel-good exercise, although it does feel good to know you are helping to make a difference.
This fall, "The Body Project," a full-scale production, inspired in part by Cornell's Joan Jacobs Brumberg's book of the same title, explores women's dissatisfaction with their bodies.
Cornell's Garden Mosaics Program, a science education and community action program promoting intergenerational and multicultural understanding the Chris Awards and the Telly Awards.
The director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center hopes to launch the center into a nationally known premium social sciences research center that sponsors groundbreaking work on human development and economic and family demography.
The most frequently performed weight-loss surgery, the gastric bypass, may not be the most effective in producing weight loss, according to a preliminary study by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
After a week of tense and intense judging in the 2005 Solar Decathlon solar-house design contest, the Cornell University team took second place to the University of Colorado in the final rankings.
The news of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long-believed extinct, stunned birders, scientists, conservationists, will be featured on CBS TV's '60 Minutes,' Oct. 16
Just because people know that a food is nutritious does not mean they will eat it. The new book, "Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity," by Cornell University's Brian Wansink discusses how food marketers, government officials, health professionals and parents can do better. (October 12, 2005)
