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Students put theory into practice in Cornell's first Labor Law Clinic

An area maintenance worker who was unjustly fired is back on the job thanks to the efforts of two Cornell Law School graduates who took on the case as students this past spring.

Toorawa awarded $195,000 Mellon Foundation fellowship

Near Eastern studies Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa has won a prestigious Mellon Foundation fellowship to study Hindi and Sanskrit.

Welcome back black currants: Forbidden fruit making a comeback in New York

Three years ago, New York repealed the half-century ban on the growing and importation of currants in the United States, and farmers are starting to jump on the currant cart.

High school students visit campus to learn how chemistry informs the humanities and social sciences

Ithaca High School sophomores and juniors trekked across the Cornell campus for two days in March, visiting the Johnson Art Museum, the Cornell Ceramics Studio and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).

Helen Yang '07 returns from ILR's first credited Beijing internship eager to pursue a career in China

Helen Yang '07 spent last semester in Beijing as ILR's first credited intern in Asia. She worked with the ILO's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor.

New study examines interracial marriage and cohabitation patterns among America's diverse black populations

Breaking away from previous marriage and cohabitation studies that treated the U.S. black population as a monolithic culture, a new Cornell study finds significant variations in interracial marriage statistics among American-born blacks and black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.

Seven-year glitch: Cornell warns that Chinese GM cotton farmers are losing money due to 'secondary' pests

Bt cotton in China fails to reap profit after seven years because secondary pests emerge and require lots of pesticides, three Cornell researchers find.

The sound of a word tells us something about how it is used, Cornell study shows

A new Cornell study describes a series of linguistic experiments showing that the sounds (phonology) of a word can indicate whether it is a noun or a verb. An article on the subject will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

IVIg antibodies provide lasting benefits to alzheimer's patients, according to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell study

NEW YORK (July 24, 2006) -- A purified mixture of human antibodies called intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) provides lasting benefits to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to researchers at the NewYork-Presbyterian…

Cornell neurosurgeons and engineers bridge gap between Ithaca and New York City with promise of medical innovations

Ten neurosurgeons from Weill Cornell Medical College make a two-day visit to Ithaca to explore areas of collaboration with the department of biomedical engineering.

Mean streets become meaningful streets as young people in New York City urban program work to bring change

Cornell students, inner-city young people and community partner organizations are working together to make significant positive changes to urban neighborhoods at five New York City sites participating in the Growing Up in Cities program.

Cornell plant scientists detect presence of plum pox virus -- disease of all stone fruits -- for first time in New York state

Cornell plant scientists, working with state and federal officials, have detected plum pox virus (PPV) for the first time in New York state on trees from an orchard in Niagara County.