Bristol-Myers Squibb has awarded a five-year $500,000 'Freedom to Discover' Unrestricted Infectious Diseases Research Grant to Weill Medical College of Cornell for HIV/AIDS research focusing on the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins and their functions during virus entry.
Just when the recording, music and publishing industries are going all-out to stop people from making their products available on the Internet, a new publishing venture at Cornell University is challenging traditional scholarly publishing by taking the opposite approach: Make the full text of a new book freely available on the Internet, and give readers the option to buy the printed book.
The Mind and Memory: Exploring Creativity in the Arts and Sciences course begins this month at Cornell and runs through April. This popular annual offering includes public lectures by distinguished members of the Cornell faculty and other creative people.
China has become the world's manufacturing center, receiving more foreign direct investment than any other country. For the past two decades, China has enjoyed an "economic miracle" with more than 8 percent growth per year.
In a significant scientific achievement, physicians and scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have successfully employed preimplantation genetic diagnosis for retinoblastoma, resulting in the world's first babies born free of the deadly eye cancer. The news appears in this month's issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
With a bill before Congress to curb large awards in class-action court settlements again, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) recently attacked such awards as "jackpot justice." But are the fees meted out by the courts really skyrocketing?
More than 80 percent of farmland in the United States is managed by farmers whose operations fall between small-scale direct markets and large, consolidated farms. These farmers increasingly are left out of the food system, and if current trends continue, the fear is that these farms will disappear in the next decade or two.
Mary Pat Brady, assistant professor of English at Cornell University, is the winner of the Modern Language Association of America's first annual prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.
At its meeting on Friday, Jan. 23, the Board of Trustees approved a set of planning parameters for the 2004-05 budget that calls for a 4.8 percent tuition increase for most students in the endowed colleges.
The speech Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from South Africa's Robben Island prison; articles in African newspapers about the AIDS epidemic; favorite stories of Nigerian schoolchildren: These are some of the primary source materials about Africa on a new Cornell outreach Website.
Weill Cornell Medical College has received a $250,000 grant from the Avon Foundation to support a unique new meditation-based stress reduction program for women who have been treated for breast cancer or gynecologic cancer.
On Super Bowl Sunday this Feb. 1, Douglas Stayman and his MBA marketing students will be back at it again studying every move – not of the players but who is advertising and why – and who is getting the most bang for the buck.
