New research shows that women benefit less than men from two common blood pressure drugs for the reduction of left-ventricular hypertrophy, which is a thickening and enlargement of the heart. (Sept. 17, 2008)
Community development professionals, government officials and citizens who want to improve the economic vitality of New York's municipalities are invited to a conference, "Social Trends and Outlook 2001: Building Economically Healthy Communities in New York State," June 4-6.
Mike Hoffmann, director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, oversees $5.1 million in research projects and helps create a 'culture of sustainability' on campus. (May 9, 2008)
Exponential population growth combined with finite resources is the fundamental source of the planet's energy and climate problems, says Richard Allmendinger, Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. (April 4, 2007)
Harold Levy, chancellor of the New York City public schools and a Cornell University alumnus, will be on campus Feb. 13 to speak about the field of teaching and to recruit Cornell students for the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
To help show young students how vegetables get from the field to the kitchen, Cornell's Kids Growing Food program is now accepting grant applications from elementary and secondary schoolteachers in New York state and several middle Atlantic states.
Cornell University potato breeders are donating a disease-resistant potato to Russia in an effort to help combat aggressive strains of potato late blight that are threatening to devastate the nation's essential small farms.
ILR School will present its highest honors for outstanding professional achievement and contributions to the school to Mark Brossman, Robert Molofsky and Ruben King-Shaw. (March 13, 2008)
LeNorman Strong, assistant vice president for student and academic services at Cornell since 1998, is leaving Cornell to take a position at the University of California-Berkley. (March 4, 2009)
With the foundations in place, 1,125 tons of steel have been rising on the site of Paul Milstein Hall, including five trusses that support the building's massive cantilever. (June 14, 2010)