The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future chose 10 interdisciplinary projects to receive academic venture funds for spring 2011. The awards were announced May 29 and total $662,509. (June 1, 2011)
Alumni Michael W.N. Chiu, Glenn T. Dallas, Robert B. Goldfarb, Barbara Hirsch Kaplan, Grace E. Richardson and W. Barlow Ware have received Rhodes awards. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Cornell engineers have found that firing up diesel backup generators in non-emergency situations triggers rising atmospheric ozone concentrations due to additional nitrogen oxide emissions.
A new $659,529 training grant from the National Institutes of Health will focus on how genes guide development and will support three graduate students interested in this area of study.
A nearly $200,000 National Science Foundation grant will fund continued Cornell research on theory-based calculations of how certain materials conduct heat. (May 31, 2011)
Children, rather than adults, make better witnesses of negative emotional events because of how their memory works, according to a new study. (July 20, 2010)
A groundbreaking June 12 celebrated the $8 million boathouse renovation and a new building for rowing, which should be completed in less than a year. (July 19, 2010)
Cornell University is announcing its ninth annual Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST) program for new Cornell students. POST, a program of the Cornell Public Service Center, provides a group of first-year and transfer students with opportunities, before the start of the school year, to perform community service projects for a number of local agencies. Students also get a head start on making friends and become familiar with the Ithaca community, which will be their home during their time at Cornell. Beginning Sunday, Aug. 15, and ending the morning of Friday, Aug. 20, some 65 incoming Cornell students and 16 upper-level students who are team leaders will spend five days and nights serving the Ithaca community through public service projects.
New York, NY (February 11, 2004) -- Capsule endoscopy, the "camera pill" device already shown to be effective in diagnosing conditions of the small intestine, may now be an effective non-invasive alternative for diagnosing conditions of the esophagus such as Barrett's esophagus, a common result of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The paper, authored by Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, a gastroenterologist at the Jay Monahan center for Gastrointestinal Health at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, was recently presented at the meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Cornell University is joining with organizations that offer career and employment services to form the Cornell Recruitment Partnership. The partnership was created to offer a new, inclusive gateway to career opportunities at Cornell. The objective of the Cornell Recruitment Partnership (CRP), organizers say, is to promote career opportunities at Cornell through strategic, diverse and communication-focused partnerships with local, regional and national career-services organizations that help connect talented people with career opportunities. The CRP's efforts will expand on earlier employment initiatives spearheaded by Cornell's offices of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality and Community Relations and will increase access to career opportunities at Cornell. (March 18, 2004)