For the second year in a row, Cornell's Formula SAE team has won the University of Toronto Shootout, a race for student-built and -driven race cars. (Sept. 19, 2007)
James Walsh, executive director of strategy and alternatives for Hermes Pensions Management in London, the United Kingdom's largest pension fund, will become Cornell's chief investment officer (CIO), managing the university's $5…
Computer science researchers will use Google Glass to coach wearers on nonverbal behavior, and 3-D scans to create computer images of soft, deformable objects.
In the fall, students in the four-credit course, Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Problem Solvers, will learn about innovators who successfully campaigned for social justice. (March 24, 2008)
New York (September 23, 2004) -- Physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center will join roughly 50 other medical centers around the world in studying whether an experimental drug delivered directly into the brain can extend the lives of people with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor.Even after doctors surgically remove a tumor, cancerous cells inevitably remain in the area surrounding a tumor site. They are generally embedded in tissue and, especially in the case of GBM, tend to proliferate rapidly, leaving the patient with a high risk of recurrence.
Sera Young, Ph.D. ’08, a research scientist in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been awarded the 2013 annual Margaret Mead Award, considered one of the most prestigious anthropology awards for junior faculty or scholars.
A memorial service for Mark von Bucher will be held Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in Rochester, N.Y., and a memorial service for Oliver Schaufelberger will be Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall on campus. (Feb. 1, 2010)
A Cornell ornithologist and a National Geographic photographer will discuss their work studying, videotaping and photographing birds of paradise. (Oct. 9, 2012)
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected Upstate Farms of Rochester as producer of the highest quality milk in New York state. The annual selection was announced today (Aug. 28) at the New York State Fair's Dairy Day. The analytical tests are run at Cornell.