The Cornell community gathered solemnly across campus in the late afternoon March 7 to pay their respects to Cornell’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett, who died the previous day of colon cancer.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff, professor of veterinary medicine, has collaborated with researchers from Germany and the University of Pittsburgh on a novel procedure for correcting heart arrhythmia.
The Cornell eRulemaking Initiative has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to solicit public input for updating the Federal Health IT strategic plan.
Cornell researcher Paul Bowser and Sea Grant fisheries specialist Dave MacNeill have received the first Research to Application Award for work on a fish virus and applying it in non-academic settings. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Election materials are now available for staff members interested in running for the two-year term position as employee trustee or for one of seven open seats on the Employee Assembly for 2012-13. (March 1, 2012)
A study asserts that, in the presence of a gentle fluid flow, the biophysics of the female reproductive tract – in particular, the grooves that line parts of it – critically assist sperm migration.
A recent news story clarified my thinking around the first-generation student experience. The bicycle and the helmet: One way to frame the 'first-gen' discussion.
For the fourth year in a row, Cornell's applied and engineering physics program has been ranked No. 1 among its peers, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 college rankings. (Aug. 22, 2008)
Although Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is surrounded by a thick, hazy atmosphere, Cornell astronomers have revealed that the moon's terrain features deep, steep-sided canyons filled with liquid hydrocarbons.