Cornell researchers have helped develop a recellularized human colon model that could be used to track the pathogenesis of colon cancer and possibly gain insight into its spread to other organs.
According to the Global Information Technology Report 2016, co-authored by Dean Soumitra Dutta, seven countries are excelling at reaping economic benefits from investments in information and communications technologies.
The grant, awarded to four New York City medical centers, including Weill Cornell Medicine, aims to improve physicians' ability to prevent and treat disease based on individual differences in lifestyle, environment and genetics.
Three pairs of early career scientists have been named the inaugural Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech. They will work jointly under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance brain technologies.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
Single-strand DNA sequencing method used for analyzing ancient remains applied by Cornell researchers to sequencing of cell-free DNA taken from plasma of transplant patients, resulting in greater yield of ultrashort cfDNA.
Cornell's first Future Professors Institute guided 77 participants, many of whom identify as underrepresented minorities, on the path to a career in the academy, and advanced Cornell's efforts to broaden diversity in higher ed.
Laura Spitz, J.S.D. '05, vice provost for international affairs, oversees Global Cornell, a university initiative aimed at strengthening Cornell's international dimension, as well as Cornell Abroad, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell University Press.
Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.
Events on campus in July include aboriginal art at the Johnson Museum, Karl Pillemer relating lessons on love from elders, Plantations botanical garden tours and School of Criticism and Theory public lectures.
Since Sofia Aumann ’19 uncovered the complicated issues behind human sex trafficking as she worked on a research project, she has supported schooling for girls in developing nations.
Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students taught 380 middle- and high-school students in hands-on workshops at the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference June 28-30 on campus.
