Four internationally acclaimed architects who are finalists in an invited architecture design competition for Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning will present their proposals for a $25 million building project to a selection jury of prominent architects and the campus community.
A researcher using data from Cornell's Kheel Center has uncovered the final six victims of the Triangle Factory Fire on March 25, 1911. (Feb. 24, 2011)
John (Jack) E. Oliver, Cornell professor emeritus of earth and atmospheric sciences and a founding contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, died Jan. 5 at his home in Ithaca. (Jan. 10, 2011)
With estimates of losing 15 to 40 percent of the world's species over the next four decades, due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers ponder in the Sept. 26 issue of Nature whether science should employ genetic engineering to the rescue.
New York, NY (February 12, 2004) -- Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have discovered that injecting a growth factor called PDGF-AB along with bone marrow cells into the heart can cause new heart cells to grow in scar tissue. The research, conducted in an animal model, has just been published in the "Online First" section of Circulation Research (March 19 print and online issue).The finding may one day lead to better treatments for heart attack, which can cause portions of the heart to die and form scar tissue. Many researchers are trying to use stem cells -- which are immature cells found in bone marrow -- to replace cells that are dead or damaged after a heart attack.
Kathy Luz Herrera, an activist, union electrician at Cornell and second-term Tompkins County legislator, spoke about her activist background, Jan. 31, in Sage Chapel as part of the 'Soup for Hope' series. (Feb. 1, 2008)
Undergraduate and graduate students gathered on the Arts Quad in full regalia to celebrate Cornell's 145th Commencement with friends and family May 26.
George Malliaras, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been named the L.B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility, and Don Tennant of Lucent Technologies will be director of operations.
The root systems of trees are known to be major storage banks for carbon dioxide (CO2), a major greenhouse gas implicated in global warming. Figuring out exactly how much of the carbon is held by these roots has been complicated by the difficulty of predicting the mass of the underground root systems. But now Cornell University professor of plant biology Karl Niklas and a colleague have proposed a mathematical sealing model that is able to predict very accurately size-dependent relationships for small- and intermediate-size plants, from the very smallest herbaceous plants to the world's tallest trees. In doing so, the model can determine the mass of root systems. (January 31, 2005)