James Houck, Cornell's Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for leading the successful development of the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph. The spectrograph, the largest of the three instruments on the orbiting space telescope, has been providing scientists with a new perspective since the observatory's launch in August 2003.
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…
Even people who seemed resilient but were close to the World Trade Center on 9/11 have brains that are more reactive to emotional stimuli than those who were more than 200 miles away. The study is one of the first to look at the effects of trauma on the brains of healthy people. (May 6, 2007)
The Listeria Outbreak Working Group, a collaboration of scientists and public health professionals organized by Cornell, has won the prestigious U.S. Department of Agriculture Honor Award, one of the highest awards bestowed by the agency.
Help! For this beetle invasion, give them a ticket to ride … out of town. The lily leaf beetle, an invasive species that dines on and destroys ornamental lily plants, has been found in New York state's North Country, say Cornell University entomologists.
Robert C. Baker, the Cornell University poultry science and food science professor who helped develop chicken nuggets, turkey ham, and poultry hot dogs into ubiquitous American fare, and who created the famous Cornell chicken…
Alumni of the Cornell in Rome Program will reunite in the Eternal City, in celebration of the program's 20th anniversary, March 24 to 26. (March 21, 2007)
Black women in the United States should be the focus of more HIV/AIDS education because they strongly influence the quality and survival of their families and communities, says a Cornell University expert on AIDS who is co-editor of a new book on the topic. Two-thirds of HIV/AIDS cases in the United States occur among black Americans, and AIDS is the second-highest cause of death among black American women, ages 18 to 44. (April 25, 2003)
On April 25, Cornell Information Technologies rolled out its newest effort to strengthen electronic security by moving to enforce stronger passwords for NetIDs. The NetID and password combination is your private key to a wide range of services -- employee benefits, student grades, e-mail, to name a few -- that are provided by and restricted to the Cornell community. What this means to current faculty, staff and students is that the next time they change their NetID passwords, they will have to follow new, more stringent rules.