Obesity impairs the body’s ability to use vitamin A appropriately and leads to deficiencies of the vitamin in major organs, according to new research conducted at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Cornell researchers have developed a new technique to understand the actions of key proteins required for cancer cells to proliferate. This could help guide the development of drugs currently in clinical trials.
The two-volume "Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies" feature distinguished senior and emerging scholars from across the human, social and natural sciences.
Laura Spitz, J.S.D. '05, vice provost for international affairs, oversees Global Cornell, a university initiative aimed at strengthening Cornell's international dimension, as well as Cornell Abroad, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell University Press.
Registration is open for Cornell’s 2015 Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference on Dec. 9, featuring the national outlook by economist Steve Kyle and a session about labor challenges in the apple industry.
Researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around and if necessary get help in interpreting what they see, enabling them to conduct surveillance as a single entity with many eyes.
Thomas O’Rourke, professor of engineering at Cornell University, comments on how utility companies and governments should handle power damage and outages after hurricanes.
Endowed faculty and staff can enroll in or make changes to health and dental benefits or enroll in a flexible spending account or legal insurance during the annual open enrollment period, Nov. 1-18, for coverage effective Jan. 1, 2017.
Events this week include J.P. Sniadecki's new film on trains and transformation in China, book talks on Project Puffin and renewing cities after natural disaster, and Cayuga's Waiters' Spring Fever.
