The national executive search firm of Korn/Ferry International has been chosen to assist in the process of identifying and recruiting the strongest possible candidates for the next president of Cornell University, Diana Daniels, chair of the university's Presidential Search Committee, announced Aug. 5.
Disease management programs pay off for congestive heart failure and multiple diseases but not necessarily for asthma, diabetes and depression, says Ron Goetzel of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies.
Ronald Seeber, Cornell professor and associate dean in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and co-director of the ILR School's Institute on Conflict Resolution, has been named to the position of Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs.
Mothers looking for employment face disadvantages - including being less likely to be hired, being offered lower salaries and facing a perception that they would be less committed to a job - than fathers or women without children, according to an experiment conducted by researchers at Cornell.
In an unusual collaboration among scientists and humanists, a Cornell team has demonstrated a novel method for recovering faded text on ancient stone by zapping and mapping 2,000-year-old inscriptions using X-ray fluorescence imaging.
A molecule first identified by Weill Medical College of Cornell University scientists as useful in intra-cellular transport mechanisms appears to have another trick up its sleeve.
A new study using an old, misunderstood technique -- hypnotic suggestion -- finds the brain can override responses experts have long assumed to be ingrained and automatic, such as reading. (Aug. 1, 2005)
Early this summer, 17 undergraduates descended on the Cornell campus from colleges across the nation. Their mission: to learn more about plants and whether plant science is for them.
Dr. J was a hemisphere away and could not see the July 27 culmination of her students' four weeks of work in person. But from somewhere in China, thanks to modern technology, Dr. J was watching.
For the Northeast, it has been hotter than ever. The upstate New York cities of Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca, Utica and Binghamton have had their hottest June and July ever officially recorded, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
A study by Cornell professor Jun-Lin Guan, published in the August 2005 issue of the journal Developmental Cell, reveals how connective tissue holding a cancer cell in place might degrade, unmooring the diseased cell and allowing it to spread to other parts of the body.
