Peter H. Coors '69, head of Molson Coors Brewing Co., spoke about growing a family business into a brewing empire at the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration 2011, April 14. (April 18, 2011)
The gamitana fish mostly eats fruit and can carry seeds down the Amazon River as far as 3 miles, reports a new Cornell study. The fish may play an important role in the structure of the Amazon forest. (April 18, 2011)
The promise and peril of 3-D printing, and particularly, the printing of electronics and other active, integrated systems, was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science talk by Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of computer science.
In New York City Jan. 26, Cornell's Board of Trustees voted to increase tuition for the endowed colleges 5.5 percent. The board also re-elected Peter Meinig as chairman. (Jan. 29, 2007)
Weill Cornell Medical College doctors write about how they are coping with the medical needs of thousands at the Cornell-affiliated GHESKIO Clinic in Haiti in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Jan. 29, 2010)
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)
Testing for chronic wasting disease in tissues from deer and elk has begun in a specially outfitted facility in the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The tests are part of a nationwide surveillance effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to track the spread of the nervous system disease, which has infected deer and elk in several states but has yet to reach New York state.
Graduate student Margaret Demment won the best student oral presentation prize at the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity meeting in Austin, Texas, May 23-26.
Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7.