On March 2, Cornell's Steven Squyres, principal investigator on the twin-rover Mars mission, told a press briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., that his team had found jarosite on Mars.
The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, will present the Senior Convocation address Saturday, May 29, during Cornell University's Commencement weekend. Cornell will celebrate its 136th Commencement Sunday, May 30. University President Jeffrey S. Lehman will present his first commencement address and confer degrees at that ceremony. (March 4, 2004)
Cornell Gardening Day will be held Saturday, March 27, at Canandaigua Middle School, Canandaigua, N.Y. The event, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., is organized by Cornell's Department of Horticulture and the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Landing a spot in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's list, Top 10 Universities Receiving Most Patents in 2003, did not surprise technology-transfer specialists at Cornell Research Foundation (CRF).
Peter H. Raven, the internationally known biologist who heads St. Louis' Missouri Botanical Garden, has been named as the 2004 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer at Cornell.
New York, NY (February 27, 2004) -- A $950,000 grant to fund the study of a new treatment approach for mantle cell lymphoma was recently awarded to Weill Cornell Medical College by the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF). Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer and the third most common childhood cancer. Mantle cell lymphoma is a less common but particularly aggressive form of the disease.The Weill Cornell grant is part of $12.8 million in new LRF grants that will fund research into finding a cure for mantle cell lymphoma. Weill Cornell Medical College received the largest of 18 grants disbursed worldwide.
A new study by three Cornell faculty members that is the first to compare death row demographics with murder statistics produced some findings that are just as likely to surprise both sides of the political spectrum as they are to confirm popularly held beliefs.
A symposium at Cornell Law School Saturday, Feb. 28, revisits Brown v. Board of Education on the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision.
New York, NY (February 25, 2004) -- Within minutes of a stroke or other brain injury, neurons begin to die, a process that is followed by a cascade of further cell death, due in part to proteins released from injured cells. These proteins tell surrounding, healthy cells to die, a process termed apoptosis. These events occur over several days and may be more devastating than the original injury.Now, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, working together with a team of researchers from Europe, have shed light on the proteins in healthy neurons that receive the apoptotic messages. In a study published in the journal Nature, they report the discovery that Sortilin, a protein whose function has been incompletely understood, plays a key role in conveying the message of apoptosis. Sortilin is a cell surface receptor, a protein that receives signals from outside the cell to modify the cell's behavior.
