Starting in July, pioneering and award-winning HIV/AIDS researcher Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University will take over as editor in chief of the newly renamed monthly journal Translational…
Trevor Pinch, Cornell professor of science and technology studies, waits backstage to serve as host of the third annual Moogfest, a concert held June 22, at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York City. The event honored the…
Science education in the United States is at a critical point, according to a national group of physicists and educators who attended a June 19 workshop on improving science education in public schools. With fewer secondary…
Get your huddled masses the heck out of here. That's the message many New Yorkers are sending to illegal immigrants, according to a statewide policy survey by Cornell University.
New York state has a centuries-old reputation for…
Eswar S. Prasad, chief of the Financial Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been named the Tolani Senior Professor in International Trade Policy at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life…
A Cornell student, arriving at Vladimir Nabokov's house in the 1950s, saw a fire blazing in the backyard. Suddenly the professor's wife ran out of the house and extracted pages of a manuscript from the flames.
Changing a single gene can greatly alter a maize plant's appearance and function. A gene mutation on the plant's second chromosome, for example, will dwarf the corn, causing it to grow only a foot high in some cases.
To create a…
Publicly funded higher education is on the ropes like never before. A 20-year decline in state funding for public higher education institutions -- where 65 percent of all four-year college students are educated -- is one of…
New York City life is tough on trees. Compacted soil with high pH, low-hanging utility wires, an environment often hot and dry, and the city's harsh winters challenge a tree's survival and colorful foliage.
So Cornell…
Should the figurative "three-legged stool" of the land-grant university mission -- teaching, research and extension -- add a fourth leg, economic development?
This question, among others, was explored by more than 150…
A former chief of the Cayuga Wolf Clan and his wife have made a challenge grant to benefit Native American students in Cornell's American Indian Program. Frank and June Bonamie's gift of $25,000 could be tripled through the…
The body of Cornell trustee and benefactor Philip Merrill '55, international statesman and adviser to U.S. and Cornell presidents, has been recovered in the Chesapeake Bay; his family said his death was "in all likelihood the…
