A discovery in yeast that has important implications for finding a cure for a devastating disease of nerve cell failures – called familial dysautonomia – has been made by Cornell researchers. They have found a gene that is a major player in determining the structural and functional asymmetry of cells – known in modern biological parlance as cell polarity.
The conference, Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion on the will bring together African-American, Asian, Latino and Native American alumni and faculty to promote interaction and to discuss, issues of concern to their communities.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed Cornell's management contract for the operation of Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest and most-sensitive single-dish radio/radar telescope.
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell University, has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra.
Five members of the Cornell University faculty, from the United States, Canada, Romania and Sweden, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. They are Colleen E. Clancy, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell; Brian Crane, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology; Erich Mueller, assistant professor of physics; Camil Muscalu, assistant professor of mathematics; and Anders Ryd, assistant professor of physics.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in April. They are free and open to the public and will be held in the Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
"Green" plastics developed in a Cornell University laboratory soon could become commercial products with the aid of a $300,000 grant from New York state. The mission of the funding agency, the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), is to encourage economic development in the state by supporting high-tech academic research that can form the basis for new businesses.
Grow grass, not for fun but for fuel. Burning grass for energy has been a well-accepted technology in Europe for decades. But not in the United States. Yet burning grass pellets as a biofuel is economical, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable, says a Cornell University forage crop expert.
A Weill Medical College of Cornell University study that focused on cardiac stress testing may give researchers a powerful new tool to study those types of psychological effects.
Five members of the Cornell University faculty, from the United States, Canada, Romania and Sweden, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell in April.
'Green' plastics developed in a Cornell University laboratory soon could become commercial products with the aid of a $300,000 grant from New York state.
