The news of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long-believed extinct, stunned birders, scientists, conservationists, will be featured on CBS TV's '60 Minutes,' Oct. 16
Just because people know that a food is nutritious does not mean they will eat it. The new book, "Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity," by Cornell University's Brian Wansink discusses how food marketers, government officials, health professionals and parents can do better. (October 12, 2005)
A new surgical option for breast cancer patients combines removal of the cancerous tumor with breast reduction in one surgical procedure, called oncoplastic surgery.
Maddie's Fund has awarded Cornell 's College of Veterinary Medicine a $1.7 million grant over six years to support a program in shelter medicine, to be called Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell.
Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg will perform at Cornell's Barton Hall Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., during Cornell's annual Family Weekend. Tickets are available online.
Virologists at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center isolate hundreds of respiratory and intestinal tract samples each month from New York City's live bird markets in an effort to root out any types of avian influenza virus and prevent such a flu in humans.
Susan C. Trock, an epidemiologist at Cornell's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory who is assigned to the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, oversees the monitoring of the 90 live bird markets in New York state for avian influenza.
Melissa Hines, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years.
Professor Shawkat Toorawa hosts a monthly discussion series, taking students on 'trips' to places as far-flung as the Waqwaq Islands in the Indian Ocean, or to the Republic of Georgia, or as strangely familiar (for some) as Fire Island, N.Y.
Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information.
