Some 93 million Americans do not have the numerical skills necessary to make well-informed decisions about their medical care, reports a Cornell professor, who has some suggestions on changing that. (Nov. 9, 2009)
A study done by the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center involving nearly 17,000 U.S. smokers confirms that women are twice as likely to develop lung cancer as men.
NEW YORK -- New evidence shows that garlic, recognized for its healing powers in ancient times, is effective against cancer and heart disease, according to Richard Rivlin, an attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital…
At a testimonial dinner, administrators, alumni and colleagues thanked retiring Johnson Museum of Art Director Frank Robinson for his 19 years of service to the museum and Cornell.
JC Tretter '13 will soon train for five weeks to prepare for football's Senior Bowl, Jan. 26, one of football's premier pre-draft events. Some 800 coaches, scouts and team staffers will be watching. (Dec. 17, 2012)
Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker '61 won an Academy Award Feb. 25 for 'The Departed.' It was her third Oscar win and sixth nomination for her work on the films of director Martin Scorsese. (Feb. 26, 2007)
Events this week include networking at the Johnson Museum, a composers' forum, 'Monk With a Camera' at Cornell Cinema and School's Out! programming at the Museum of the Earth.
In this shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, pre-cooked world, Cornell University is striving to keep a strong agricultural connection active in the minds of 21st century children. The university's Agriculture in the Classroom program has developed the New York "Kids Growing Foods" school-garden program, and this spring grants are being awarded to 34 elementary schools in the state to establish or maintain these gardens.
Four decades after NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, about 800 Cornellians gathered at Bailey Hall Oct. 19 to celebrate the unprecedented mission, its famous Golden Record and the university’s role in the mission.