Martha Stipanuk and Kathleen Rasmussen, both professors in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell, received awards at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting this month. (May 19, 2009)
Enabling excellent teachers to remain in the classroom beyond retirement -- and allowing them to devote their talents to teaching undergraduates -- is a major challenge for universities today. Thanks to the generosity of two of its alumni, Andrew H. Tisch '71 and James S. Tisch '75, Cornell University is prepared to meet that challenge. The Tisch brothers have established a unique, distinguished professorship at Cornell that honors excellence in teaching and extends the undergraduate teaching role beyond retirement. (April 10, 2002)
Michael P. Hoffmann, Cornell associate professor of entomology, has been appointed as director of Cornell's New York State Integrated Pest Management program.
When Monsanto needed a fast solution to building space for 40 researchers, it erected a tent. Or, more accurately, it turned to a temporary tent like structure that took only 28 days to erect.
Community organizations the Life Writing Project and Veterans Sanctuary have joined the Center for Transformative Action as project partners. (July 15, 2010)
Temple Grandin a renowned animal scientist and a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, has autism. As a result, she learned to think in pictures, which has strong parallels, she believes, to how animals think, she said in a public lecture Feb. 15, 2006 at Cornell. (February 21, 2006)
Cornell researchers have demonstrated that the passage of a light beam through an optical fiber can be controlled by just a few photons of another light beam. (Nov. 8, 2011)
Professor Karl Pillemer is the receipient of the Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America for his work on improving the lives of older adults in nursing homes and community settings. (Nov. 19, 2010)
If you have ever entertained the idea of bottling, branding and selling your special sauce, salsa, spice blend or salad dressing, a new book by Barbara Lang, director of restaurants and food concepts at Cornell's Statler Hotel,…
New York, NY (May 21, 2004) -- By simply switching off one copy of a gene, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have enabled fruit flies to live 51% longer -- the equivalent in human terms of extending average lifespan to the ripe old age of 113.The gene, called stunted, is one of only a few such longevity genes to be discovered in the Drosophila fly, a favorite model for studies into aging and longevity. What's more, stunted works by encoding a molecule that connects to a receptor lying on the surface of cells -- a receptor that's long been a favorite target for pharmaceutical research.