Jobs With Justice, a nonprofit workers’ advocacy organization, will donate archival materials from its 25-year history to the ILR School’s Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives.
Scientists have begun to account for the topsy-turvy carbon cycle of the Colorado River delta – once a massive green estuary of grassland, marshes and cottonwood, now desiccated dead land.
The Employee Assistance Program will be accepting applications to the Hardship Fund April 13-May 29. The fund is one of a number of programs designed to help employees in the current economic downturn. (April 3, 2009)
A NASA-funded collaborative research team led by Cornell engineers launched a rocket Feb. 18 from Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range to collect data straight from the heart of the aurora borealis.
Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues finds that the closer to Valentine's Day we get, the more chocolates – and red roses – spell out "l-o-v-e."
Law, astronomy, the armed services, desktop publishing, virtual reality and the visual arts are a few of the sessions that children participating in this year's Bring a Child to Work Day can attend. (March 14, 2008)
Emergency management officials at Cornell hosted a tabletop exercise Aug. 20 to assess readiness for one of the worst possible incidents, a shooting and hostage-taking scenario on campus. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Ezra Cornell was deeply involved in the construction of the new campus and was known to hover over workers, to whom he offered 'sharp admonishments.' (Aug. 16, 2007)
NEW YORK (March 16, 2005) -- Two compounds that zero in on cancer cells spreading throughout the body, while ignoring primary tumor cells, could someday give doctors a whole new weapon in the fight against tough-to-treat metastatic disease, according to Weill Medical College of Cornell University researchers.The compounds, called synthetic migrastatin analogues, prevented 91 to 99 percent of metastatic breast cancer cells in mice, and are the first to target only metastatic cells.
Cornell's new Performance and Speakers Bureau, sponsored by the Einaudi Center, coordinates international organizations across campus to train student presenters to speak or perform at area schools. (Dec. 11, 2007)