Cornell University's total research spending in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, rose by more than 12 percent compared with a year earlier, with expenditures at the university's Ithaca campus increasing by more than 10 percent.
N.Y. -- Two featured events during Cornell University's 22nd Health Awareness Week, Jan. 27-31, on campus, will be public lectures by noted health professionals Dr. Henry J. Heimlich and Dr. Robert C. Hsiung. Hsiung, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Chicago and an online health-information innovator, will give the Distinguished Health Professional Lecture Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building. (January 10, 2003)
Parents in New York state are provided with a minimum standard of quality by child-care facilities that are licensed or registered. Now, parents in five counties can choose from Child Care Programs of Excellence that have met quality criteria above and beyond state regulatory requirements. The new designation is provided by a Cornell University-New York State Child Care Coordinating Council pilot project. (February 05, 2003)
The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center has discovered that the wonder drug tamoxifen can help breast cancer patients have babies - even after they experience fertility loss associated with chemotherapy.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $538,450 to the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University for the fourth phase of a long-term preservation project, called the National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature. This project will keep historically significant agricultural books and documents from being lost to natural decay. (January 9, 2003)
Health Awareness Week is making a grand return to Cornell University during the week of Jan. 27. The 22nd annual edition of campuswide health-related presentations and educational activities.
When the Patriot Act passed Congress weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, federal law-enforcement officials received more power to eavesdrop on telephone calls, secretly monitor e-mail communication and find out what library-card holders have been reading.
A new book by Daniel R. Altschuler, director of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, makes a big bang itself as it creatively attempts to answer some of these questions while covering topics ranging from astronomy to physics, and paleontology to geology.
Among 473 of the alien plant species that have invaded from Europe and become naturalized in the United States as noxious weeds, the "most successful" traveled light.
Corporate law faculty across the United States have joined in support of a rule recently proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would make lawyers involved in executing corporate transactions more accountable for addressing client fraud.
An oversight committee for Arecibo Observatory, the national astronomical facility in Puerto Rico, has been established to act as a management link between Cornell, which manages the huge radio telescope, and the U.S. funding agency, the National Science Foundation.
Even if implemented to the maximum, renewable energy sources would replace only about half the U.S. consumption of oil, natural gas and coal, according to an analysis by ecologists at Cornell. Furthermore, the analysis states alternative energy systems -- such as hydroelectric, solar and wind power and biofuels -- if fully developed would occupy up to one-sixth of America's land area.
