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 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).
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.
A new study of upstate New York's economy by three Cornell University faculty members confirms that the region continues to lag behind much of the rest of the nation and, as a result, is losing its best and brightest young people to regions with more better-paying jobs in vibrant urban centers. The only bright spots in the otherwise bleak report are higher education and health care. The report quantifies how the region has never fully rebounded from the deindustrialization that began in the 1970s and continues to the present. Today, upstate remains far behind the national average in income and job growth, with average wages rising little more than 2 percent from 1980 to 2000, compared with 15 percent in the rest of the nation. However, the report also shows that jobs in the region are beginning to diversify -- a positive change. The researchers call for concerted state policy efforts backed by federal support to spur further economic health. (March 18, 2004)
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.
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.
Events this week include piano improvisations in Bailey Hall, coffee and birds at the Lab of Ornithology, Judy's Day at Cornell Plantations, and a regional cancer and environment forum. (Sept. 17, 2009)
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.
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.