With a bill before Congress to curb large awards in class-action court settlements again, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) recently attacked such awards as "jackpot justice." But are the fees meted out by the courts really skyrocketing?
Three Cornell researchers will receive Hartwell awards for their cutting-edge research to benefit children: Charles Glatt and Anjali Rajadhyaksha of Weill Cornell Medical College and John March in Ithaca. (April 3, 2008)
Attendees at the April 1 Service Recognition Dinner celebrated 25 or more years of service to Cornell by listening to opera, watching a clogger, rocking to rock and clapping to the sounds of the past 40 years. (April 9, 2009)
The fellowships, for students planning to pursue a teaching career, provide support for six to 12 months of dissertation research in a foreign country. (June 3, 2010)
As the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity head into their third and most perilous winter yet, researchers are working to optimize their safety -- and reporting on new evidence that the planet could once have sustained life. (Dec. 21, 2007)
Pursuing a quality education is more than a personal responsibility; it is an individual right. On June 7, educators from around central New York will be meeting at Ithaca High School to explore this concept during the second Community Forum on Education and Society. The featured speaker will be Robert Moses, a renowned educator and civil rights activist. His talk is free and open to the public.
Cornell professor was recently given a boost with $937,000 in federal stimulus money to create simple models to mimic and study cholesterol in cell membranes. (Sept. 21, 2009)
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is the third architectural firm chosen to take on the Milstein Hall project for Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP).
"The project has had a checkered past," AAP…
A Cornell researcher has found that a cancer cell's sugar coating causes physical changes in the cell membrane that make the cell better able to thrive.