Applications are due April 19 for College of Arts and Sciences summer experience grants, which are receiving alumni support to help students take unpaid summer internships.
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.
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)
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)
The university has donated the proceeds – almost $42,000 – from Charter Day Weekend registration fees to the Student Support Fund, the Emergency CARE Fund and the Tompkins County Library Foundation.
Professor emeritus Richard Durst will be inducted into the National Institute of Standards and Technology Portrait Gallery for his 'outstanding career contributions.' (April 13, 2009)
How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each. (Jan. 5, 2012)
In a new book about Babylonian laborers of the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C., assistant professor Jonathan Tenney asserts that whether they were slaves or not, they lived in nuclear families. (Jan. 5, 2012)
Michael I. Kotlikoff, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, has been named dean of the veterinary college, effective July 1. (April 26, 2007)
More than 150 students at the School of Hotel Administration had worked since last fall to pull off the conference for leaders of the hospitality industry.