Americans suffer from some 76 million cases of food-borne diseases (FBDs) each year. And some of the associated bacteria can have lasting health consequences, according to Kathryn Boor.
As the Chinese media become more independent, public and Communist Party officials and even companies are filing successful defamation suits in the courts as a way to muffle opinion, said Benjamin Liebman, a law professor at…
The 2015 Lund Critical Debate March 3 brought a former U.S. ambassador to the Middle East and a scholar together to debate whether U.S. policy in the region works.
The U.S. Department of Education grant will enable the Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center-Northeast ADA Center to research how to improve employment and community living for the disabled.
Kent Hubbell, B.Arch. '69, is returning to the architecture faculty after serving for 15 years as Cornell's dean of students, a tenure marked by his concern and support for students' well-being.
Sarah Victor '14, an ILR student, wrote and delivered the winning sermon in this year's Harold I. Saperstein '31 Topical Sermon Contest on American Ideals.
In a room in the basement of Willard Straight Hall sits one of Cornell's best-kept secrets: a fully functional pottery studio, complete with three kilns, 32 wheels and regular visits from world-renowned potters. (March 15, 2007)
When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize bad decisions.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 10. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York.
New York, NY (December 19, 2002) - Physicians in the Departments of Urology and Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center have become the first in New York City to perform robotic urologic surgery on a child. The procedure, robotic pediatric pyeloplasty, corrects a common congenital malformation that, if left untreated, will endanger kidney function. It is a less-invasive alternative to the traditional "open" method, which requires a large, scarring incision.Dr. Dix Poppas, Chief of Pediatric Urology at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell and the Richard Rodgers Family Associate Professor in Pediatric Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College, performed the surgery on a seven-year-old boy from Wallington, NJ, correcting a uretero-pelvic junction obstruction (UPJ), a narrowing of the kidney where it connects to the ureter. As many as one in 200 children are born with a degree of hydronephrosis, a dilation of the inside of the kidney that results from obstructions to the flow of urine; a large majority of these cases are due to UPJ.