The viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus has been identified in 19 fish species in the Great Lakes Basin and is approaching epidemic proportions, says Paul Bowser, professor of aquatic animal medicine. (May 17, 2007)
Professor Emeritus Michael Latham was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the African Nutrition Graduate Students Network for 'improving nutrition in Africa.' (May 17, 2007)
Biologist W. Lee Kraus has received the Richard E. Weitzman Memorial Award, which recognizes an exceptionally promising young clinical or basic investigator for his or her independent scholarship. (May 17, 2007)
In early 1865, Ezra Cornell, as a wealthy senator in the New York Legislature, continued to lay the foundation for founding a new institution of higher learning. (May 17, 2007)
Karen Walters has been named assistant director of the Cornell Chronicle, effective July 1, it was announced last week by Tommy Bruce, vice president for university communications.
Close to 1,000 organ transplantation patients, donors and families reunited with their medical teams in New York City May 4 for a Circle for Life celebration. (May 17, 2007)
Four research grants for women faculty at Cornell have been awarded for the first time through the new Cornell ADVANCE Center, which is dedicated to recruiting and retaining women in science and engineering. (May 16, 2007)
Design professor Jack Elliott has created an award-winning pendant lamp that uses its own aluminum waste shavings, or swarf, as the diffuser, embodying the 'green' principles of reducing, reusing and recycling. (May 16, 2007)
Student filmmakers' projects, varying from comedy to documentary, took shape over the past semester and were screened on campus recently. (May 16, 2007)
Staff and faculty from a variety of Cornell research centers traveled to New York to spend three days providing underrepresented populations with research-based science education programming. (May 16, 2007)
To help government agencies deal with rule-making in the Internet age and make the process more accessible to the public, Cornell scientists and legal experts have created the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative. (May 16, 2007)