NEW YORK (May 3, 2006) -- Breakthrough discoveries are pushing back the origins of Alzheimer's disease to an early breakdown in trafficking within brain cells, according to researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell…
Heat and dryness from this past summer created a bumper crop of insect pests. Information on controlling the insects is available from Cornell Cooperative Extension offices.
Steven Powell, senior engineer in electrical and computer engineering, is leading a Cornell group that has sent a project up to the International Space Station to study the ionosphere.
Alan Kellog McAdams, professor emeritus of managerial economics in Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, died Sept. 14 in Ithaca after a short illness. He was 83.
Cornell has been selected to lead a $5.5 million-plus project in Bangladesh as part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture Food for Progress program to provide international assistance in 2009. (July 13, 2009)
Fred Rhoades has been driving buses – all kinds of buses, from school and senior citizens' buses to charter coaches – for more than 35 years. But according to Rhoades, the Prevost motor coaches that run eight times a week on Cornell's Campus-to-Campus express charter service beat them all – at least, based on comfort and passenger response from students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Students and professors may no longer have to labor on Labor Day, if the Faculty Senate has its way. The senate voted April 8 to cancel classes on the holiday, celebrated the first Monday in September.
NEW YORK -- To help display Cornell University's ongoing involvement with New York City and its residents, Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman, City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer (D--Sixth District), city parks officials and other dignitaries will take part in a ceremony at 531 Amsterdam Ave. (at 86th St.), Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. (October 08, 2003)
Reaching across the Pacific Ocean with a friendly hand, Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings formally signed an academic partnership Nov. 15 with Peking University. This puts the final Beijing piece of Cornell's new China and Asia-Pacific Studies program into place. (November 15, 2005)