The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Cornell $5,897,513 over five years to establish the National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT).
Researchers in developing countries find it frustrating trying to keep abreast of the latest agricultural research because hard currency shortages prevent the purchase of hugely expensive scientific journals. Now, Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library is offering a solution: an information source it has dubbed "library-in-a-box."
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 28 and 29. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. A 20-minute open session will be held at the start of the meeting.
Chemical biologists at Cornell have pioneered a new imaging technique that offers researchers a new way to observe the working of therapeutic drugs within single cancer cells.
Charles E. Palm, Cornell dean of the College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and the university's first Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences, died Feb. 25 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 84. As a true leader and innovator in many scientific and academic fronts.
Mann Library is on the verge of selling its 100th Library in a Box, formally called The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. The equivalent of an entire room's worth of print journals all compressed onto CDs provides some 2.2 million pages of academic articles to 100 institutions in 50 developing countries, from Vietnam, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Senegal, Ethiopia and Malawi to Honduras, Bolivia and Peru.
A Cornell — City of Ithaca partnership has received $400,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist in addressing the needs and concerns of neighborhoods in Ithaca and to help enhance the quality of life in the city.
Cornell astronomers, observing what they call "the most boring, average galaxy" they could find, have discovered some unusual mechanics: counter- rotating stars in a spiral galaxy.
Some of the hottest debates raging in America today hinge on the extent to which governments can, or should, regulate human relationships. Should states hold parents accountable for their children's crimes? Restrict no-fault divorces? Prohibit same-sex marriages? Addressing such questions, commentators often lament the loss of propriety that prevailed early in this century, when more families were intact, more morals adhered to.
Catherine Oertel, a postdoctoral fellow in materials chemistry at Cornell and an organist herself, is researching what is corroding Baroque-era organs in churches and cathedrals across Europe.