The day will come when people will be screened for hundreds of diseases through a simple blood test if the vision of the newest faculty recruit under the Strategic Plan for Research at Weill Cornell Medical College is fulfilled.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, will hold two lectures among other events during his first campus visit to Cornell.
While unemployment payments can help protect recipients against health deterioration during forced unemployment, welfare benefits don't, finds an international study by a Cornell University epidemiologist.
Terrill Cool, professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell, has been awarded $354,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a three-year study of combustion chemistry.
Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $1.3 million, four-year grant by the National Science Foundation to produce and study polymer microphotonics.
Investments in China by U.S. firms have increased from $200 million in 1989 to $7.8 billion in 2000 and the country once described as a 'sleeping giant' is now the United States' fourth largest trading partner, after Canada, Mexico and Japan.
Cornell and its various Jewish groups have joined together to provide the framework for a more vibrant community for Jewish life on campus, including campus-wide kosher dining.
In an effort to cut down on alcohol-related car crashes, injuries and deaths, Cornell Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and fielding DWI saturation patrols randomly on and near campus throughout the coming academic year.
Michele M. Bailey, DVM, director of animal care and veterinary services at the University of Western Ontario, has been named associate vice provost for research animal resources at Cornell and director of Laboratory Animal Services in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
The President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to Cornell's president, has awarded its 2001 research grants to seven women faculty members.
Paula England and Robert Max Jackson, two leading scholars in the field of gender studies, will go head-to-head in a debate on gender equity in the workplace Friday, Sept. 7, at 3 p.m.
