Growing interest in using flexible electronics for next-generation biomedical devices has prompted the creation of a new graduate student research program at Cornell, funded by the National Science Foundation. (Sept. 11, 2007)
Actor Tom Demenkoff will present a DrillingCompaNY actors workshop open to the campus community Nov. 19 in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (November 9, 2005)
New research by John Cawley demonstrates for the first time that the state-level expansions of Medicaid that were promoted by the Affordable Care Act succeeded in improving preventive care among low-income Americans.
A discovery in yeast that has important implications for finding a cure for a devastating disease of nerve cell failures – called familial dysautonomia – has been made by Cornell researchers. They have found a gene that is a major player in determining the structural and functional asymmetry of cells – known in modern biological parlance as cell polarity.
Bernd Lambert, an authority on kinship among Pacific islanders of the Republic of Kiribati and professor of anthropology emeritus, died Jan. 3, 2015 at his Ithaca home. Lambert joined Cornell faculty in 1964.
Cornell Cinema is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Janus Films -- the renowned distributor of foreign and classic films -- with screenings of several Janus titles and a raffle of the 50-DVD boxed set. (April 18, 2007)
Entrepreneur Thomas L. Ward '81 is the new director of the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. (Feb. 6, 2008)
The Cornell community welcomed new students with a communal outdoor meal Aug. 24 on the Arts Quad.
Picnic on the Quad, a new Welcome Weekend event this year, brought hundreds of students, faculty and staff together for lunch on…