Maralyn Edid in Cornell's ILR School has been selected for the 2008 David J. Allee and Paul R. Eberts Community and Economic Vitality Award from Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute. (Oct. 23, 2008)
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise has launched a green revolving fund to enhance energy conservation efforts in campus buildings.
Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue.
The Alan T. and Linda M. Beimfohr Lecture series will bring intellectuals to campus to address issues related to faith in a pluralistic society. Historian John Sommerville will give the inaugural talk Oct. 12. (Oct. 3, 2011)
On May 25, Cornell President David Skorton announced the $25 million gift, which will establish the Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigatorships in the Life Sciences. (May 26, 2007)
Cornell will test its emergency notification systems, including the siren/PA system, text and e-mail messages, and phone calls, Oct. 14 at 12:10 p.m. There is no need for action during the test. (Oct. 7, 2009)
A planned telescope known as CCAT, proposed and led by Cornell scientists, has received strong endorsement from a national panel charged with setting priorities in astronomy for the next decade. (Aug. 16, 2010)
When galaxies collide (as our galaxy, the Milky Way, eventually will with the nearby Andromeda galaxy), what happens to matter that gets spun off in the collision's wake? With help from the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, Cornell astronomers are beginning to piece together an answer to that question. (November 30, 2005)
Nutritionist Patsy Brannon served on an Institute of Medicine committee to update recommendations, including tripling the intake of vitamin D for healthy people. (Jan. 7, 2011)
Most of New York state's vertebrates, from amphibians and reptiles to birds and mammals, have less than 10 percent of their predicted population on state- and federal-protected lands, according to an eight-year study conducted by Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources. "That was a surprise," said Charles Smith, Cornell senior research associate in natural resources, who leads the New York state Gap Analysis Program (GAP), a federally funded, long-term effort to inventory land and water species. New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the Cornell Institute for Resource Information Systems contributed to the report. "This tells me that our state agencies have an important management mission ahead of them, and we've got to enlist the public to help. We have to ask ourselves, how do we keep these animals around for future generations to enjoy?" (May 28, 2002)