The Early Lung Cancer Action Project, a nine-year-old project led by New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, has already demonstrated that an initial "baseline" screening of high-risk persons by low-dose advanced computed tomography can detect lung cancer at earlier, presumably more curable stages than ordinary x-ray.
When people ask author and linguist Deborah Tannen, What is it about mothers and daughters and why do they have so many problems, especially since they are both women, the answer she gives them is, "Because they're both women." …
Cornell administrators, aided by the American Red Cross, are reaching out to the nearly 700 Cornell students from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
At the April 14 Soup and Hope talk, Kathy Zoner explained what it is like to be police chief, responding regularly to people in crisis, and still have hope.
Carl E. Wieman, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, will discuss a new form of matter that occurs at record cold temperatures in a nontechnical talk on the Cornell University campus Oct. 9. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be given at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall. Wieman, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, will be presenting the second of his two Bethe Lectures at Cornell. (October 2, 2002)
Three of New York's leading research institutions announced the creation of a $160 million collaborative program in basic biological research sparked by a private donor who will contribute half the total investment.
It may soon be possible to produce a low cost, high-value, high-strength fiber from a biodegradable and renewable waste product for air filtration, water filtration and agricultural nanotechnology, report polymer scientists at Cornell.
A former Cornell graduate student's documentary film of an impoverished Brooklyn family is the catalyst for a symposium addressing societal, legal, cultural and clinical issues affecting millions of Americans daily.