The University of Colorado Law School will host a conference Sept. 5 honoring Cornell Professor Emeritus Alfred Kahn. Thirty years ago, Kahn spearheaded the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. (Aug. 13, 2008)
A new Cornell program funded by the National Science Foundation will train graduate students to use interdisciplinary approaches to tackle food systems problems that contribute to extreme poverty. (Aug. 26, 2009)
NEW YORK (May 23, 2005) -- A biochemical partnership between two novel compounds called cell-cycle inhibitors is crucial to the development of blood vessels that help tumors survive and thrive, according to a collaborative Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.When researchers transplanted tumors into mice genetically engineered to lack two of these inhibitors, those tumors failed to develop much-needed vasculature -- a process called angiogenesis.
Several events on campus this month provide an opportunity for students, staff, faculty, visitors and the local community to engage in conversations around diversity, politics, higher education and other topics.
The eggs of the viburnum leaf beetle have hatched, and the larvae are beginning to chow down once again on viburnum shrubs in New York state and New England. Without the use of pesticides to protect susceptible varieties, the bushes are doomed, says a Cornell University entomologist.
Thirty-three Johnson School students spent an intensive spring break in Colombia, advising business leaders on ways to grow their operations and forge into new markets. (April 23, 2009)
Fashion design major Brandon Wen's edgy piece in the Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Exhibition was inspired by nature, film and art. But to pull off his vision, he needed help from a Cornell mycologist. (Sept. 12, 2012)
Cornell doctoral candidates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields have secured $2.3 million in research funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (Sept. 28, 2009)
NEW YORK -- Pouting models -- including a Cornell student -- and live music mixed it up at the W Hotel in Manhattan May 1 as Cornell Design League and Harvard's Veritas Records performed to raise money and awareness for thyroid cancer. The models were showing off original designs by 40 Cornell students before a packed house of 300.