Cornell University Police is conducting an investigation into an apparent prank in Fall Creek gorge and requests that anyone with information contact investigators.
The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT), in which Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a major participant, has found that certain advanced emphysema patients benefit little from Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) and are at unacceptable risk of death from the procedure.
Carving knives may be the least of threats to pumpkins this Halloween, because a pumpkin-destroying disease called bacterial wilt, spread by striped or spotted cucumber beetles, has been found in the upper Midwest and the Northeast, says a Cornell plant pathologist.
When Cornell's energy supplier, NYSEG, made an Aug. 8 request for a voluntary power reduction – to help avoid rolling blackouts during a midsummer heat wave in Tompkins County and New York state – members of the campus community responded immediately.
The Cornell Public Service Center has announced the first fellows in the new Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program. The program will enable four community leaders involved in economic- and community-development efforts to join the Cornell community.
Got game? The First Annual Cornell Dairy Open golf tournament is scheduled for Aug. 9, at Cornell University's Robert Trent Jones Golf Course on Warren Road.
Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell University agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.
Two researchers at Cornell University are predicting that high-temperature superconductivity could exist in a class of exotic materials containing silver and fluorine.
This week's (8/2/01) New England Journal of Medicine highlights a significant study on surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy. It proves, for the first time, in a randomized, controlled trial, that surgery rather than medication should be the mode of choice for temporal-lobe epilepsy. Dr. Ted Schwartz, new Director of the Center of Epilepsy and Brain Tumor Surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center, is available for interviews. Contact him through Jonathan Weil, Public Affairs, 212-821-0560.
New York, NY (August 2001) -- Jay Edelberg, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular researcher and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been named a 2001-2004 Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Alliance for Aging Research. The prestigious honor includes an award of $450,000 to support his research into finding new approaches to reverse vascular changes in the aging heart.
