U.S. Navy Lt. Bibianna Danko '99, who flies one of the largest helicopters in the world, has been using her piloting skills to rescue victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
At the women's hockey game against Harvard Nov. 12, more than 1,400 fans cheered the Big Red to a 5-3 victory and raised $1,630 for the Cornell United Way Campaign. (Nov. 16, 2011)
Weeds, those unwanted, unloved and annoying invasive plants that farmers and gardeners hate amid their plantings, are expanding to northern latitudes, thanks to rising temperatures.
A newly established national biomedical center at Cornell University is reporting its first major advance: a new way of measuring, or "visualizing," proteins. The new technique will hasten the transformation of the human genome project's blueprints of life into a comprehensive view of the biochemical and physiological circuitry that interconnect to form entire organisms. The technique, which determines the structure of a protein by measuring the distances between atoms in the molecule at greater separations than previously possible, is an important development, says Jack Freed, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, who is director of the National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT), established at Cornell last year by the National Institutes of Health. "This is in the spirit of seeing the whole forest of the protein, whereas before we have been seeing the trees one after another," says Freed. (June 19, 2002)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2004 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 22 through 24. The full board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23.
Biomedical engineering researchers have made antibodies that block only specific immune cells that cause inflammation, but not the ones the body normally uses to fight infections. (April 15, 2010)
John Sohn '11 has won a $25,000 Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund for his idea of a fashion apparel truck that would sell his gender-neutral clothing line. (Jan. 18, 2011)
Cornell University Police, with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cortland Police Department, the Tompkins County District Attorney's office and the New York State Police, have completed a five-month investigation into the possession of child pornography. Robert E. Mosher, 39, of 3 Garfield St., Cortland, was arrested Oct. 17 at the New York State Police barracks in Owego, N.Y., and charged with two counts of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child, an E felony. Mosher was issued an appearance ticket to return to Ithaca Town Court on Monday, Nov. 11, at 9 a.m. (October 18, 2002)
Cornell Law School and the Thai Bar Association have forged a scholarship and exchange program honoring Cornell alumna, Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol. (March 6, 2007)
A silver World Congress of Biomechanics Young Investigator Award went to Cynthia Reinhart-King, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, for her work in cellular mechanics. (June 1, 2010)