The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., an affiliate of Cornell University, announced that clinical trials will begin today (July 7) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., to test the safety and immunogenicity of the world's first potential oral vaccine against the hepatitis B virus.
Many college students regale their friends -- and scare their parents -- with tales of widespread and excessive drinking, smoking and other drug use on campus.
An exotic piece of apparatus that will be the heart of a detector to seek out the primordial secrets of the universe arrived at Cornell's Wilson Laboratory July 7.
Foods with fat substitutes might have fewer grams of fat, but they don't necessarily have significantly fewer calories, warns a Cornell University nutrition expert.
John Eckenrode, professor and chair of human development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell, served as Cornell's representative last month at Vice President Al Gore's forum.
A "Chordash-built home" is synonymous to many Ithacans as a home of quality. Chordash Builders, which constructed and remodeled numerous homes in Ithaca from the 1950s to the early 1970s, was owned by Michael A. Chordash and his wife.
Long before the so-called "lost generation" of 20th-century American writers in Paris unleashed their profound yet homesick talents on the world, two giants of 19th-century American letters had long since charted expatriate territory in body and soul.
The Cornell Public Service Center has been selected to be featured in the publication 'The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development', which is due out in September.'
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman saluted five staff members of Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library by presenting them with the 1999 Secretary's Honor Award in a ceremony in Washington recently.
Beth E. Clark, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Astronomy for the past three years, has been named by NASA to lead a research team for history's first asteroid sample return mission.
The Park Foundation has renewed its support of the Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management with a gift of nearly $7.5 million that extends support of the program through the Class of 2004.
