Molecular biologists at Cornell University have established a Recombinant Protein Expression Laboratory with a five-year, $986,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute. Located in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the centralized facility will produce proteins for cancer-related research throughout Cornell's Ithaca campus as well as at the Weill Medical College of Cornell and its Tri-Institutional Collaboration partners (Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) in New York City. (June 7, 2002)
A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. "Mike" Abrams cherished - poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.
Cornell University's fourth annual New Student Reading Project rolls out Sunday, Aug. 22, at 3:30 p.m., when more than 3,600 first-year and transfer students are scheduled to gather in Barton Hall for an interactive faculty presentation on Franz Kafka's The Trial. The event will be broadcast live on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. On Monday, Aug. 23, Cornell students, led by administrators, faculty members, graduate students and staff, will meet in 230 groups across campus to discuss Kafka's prescient work. More than 20,000 Cornell alumni from 23 classes also are involved in the Kafka reading project. For campus and alumni readings and related events, visit Cornell's reading project Web site. (August 17, 2004)
Seven of Cornell's brightest scholars tackled topics ranging from global politics and crises in health, food and economics, to Cornell's international and intellectual missions at the 'Big Red in the Big Apple' event. (Jan. 26, 2008)
Adam and Emilie Liebhoff will both graduate with their MBAs this May, three months after Emilie gave birth to their daughter, Lilly. During school Emilie also launched a business, a mother/daughter sports camp. (May 21, 2007)
The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected three new trustee fellows and re-elected three at-large trustees, one trustee from the field of agriculture and two trustee fellows.
NEW YORK -- The building of a pioneering life sciences research complex situated in the desert on the border between Jordan and Israel will begin this year, the Bridging the Rift Foundation has announced. The foundation is leading an international group of scientists and educators from Jordan, Israel, Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., in building a research and education center to gather, organize and model information about all living systems. (May 25, 2004)
GENEVA, N.Y. -- Cornell University entomologists have unlocked an evolutionary secret to how insects evolve into new species. The discovery has major implications for the control of insect populations through disruption of mating, suggesting that over time current eradication methods could become ineffective, similar to the way insects develop pesticide resistance. The researchers, led by Wendell L. Roelofs, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Insect Biochemistry at Cornell, made the discovery while examining ways to keep European corn borers from mating, multiplying and then chewing up farmers' fields. They discovered the existence of a previously undetected gene, the delta-14, that can regulate the attractant chemicals produced in sex-pheromone glands of female borers. The gene can be suddenly switched on, changing the pheromone components that females use to attract males for mating. (September 10, 2002)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Gardeners tending even the most modest pea patches know it's a jungle out there when it comes to managing weeds. But a new two-volume CD-ROM set, developed and produced by a Cornell University weed scientist, provides comprehensive, user-friendly instruction whether you're weeding a backyard garden or landscaping a golf course. The innovative program, now available to the public, is humbly titled "Weed Identification, Biology and Management," and it's an encyclopedic tour de plantes of more than 100 Northeastern weed species. "You don't have to be a botanist or a taxonomist to understand the program; it's practical and accessible to just about anyone," said Antonio DiTommaso, Cornell assistant professor of weed science in the university's Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. "We're hoping this CD package helps people to learn more about these often strikingly beautiful plants, which at times interfere with our activities." (July 6, 2004)
Events on campus this week include: Veteran's Day and Kristallnacht commemorations; comedy and dance benefits; Benefair; President's address to staff; Henry Paulson lecture. (Nov. 4, 2010)