Whether campus finances would become more or less centralized was the main point of debate Feb. 5 at a brown-bag lunch on the proposed budget model, which will take effect in July 2012.
Veterans' rights activist Gus Kappler ’61, M.D. ’65, spoke on campus Sept. 23 about his experiences as a surgeon in Vietnam and ongoing poor treatment of U.S. veterans.
The song 'Garbage!' by Bill Steele '54 remains one of the environmental movement's anthems, popularized by Pete Seeger and still as timely as when Steele wrote it in San Francisco in 1969. (April 22, 2009)
A group of Buddhist monks, visiting the U.S. to assist the Dalai Lama, will come to the Cornell campus with prayers for world peace on July 21. (July 15, 2011)
Assistant professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been named a finalist for a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, for her National Book Award-nominated poetry collection 'Open Interval.' (Feb. 26, 2010)
Dr. Arthur Garson laid out the topography of the health care debate, defining terms and dispelling a few myths along the way, in his keynote address kicking off the Sick in America series, April 20. (April 21, 2009)
New York, NY (May 17, 2004) -- U.S. blacks with high blood pressure are about twice as likely to have an enlarged heart and a thicker heart muscle wall than their white counterparts independently of the degree of hypertension, report NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.Many studies have found that left ventricular hypertrophy -- increased muscle weight of the heart's main pumping chamber -- is an independent predictor of illness or death due to cardiovascular disease, including stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. And it is known that African-Americans with high blood pressure are 50% more likely to die of stroke and 80% more likely to die of heart disease than whites.
Designed to develop tomorrow's leaders for the business world, the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell's Johnson School is celebrating its 10th anniversary. (Dec. 10, 2007)
In his State of the University address, President David Skorton said that Cornell must play a leadership role in 'putting the full force of our teaching, research and outreach to solve the greatest challenge of our century.' (June 9, 2007)
SAN FRANCISCO -- If California energy officials had paid closer attention to mathematics and the commodities market yesterday, much of the state could be experiencing less of an energy crisis today. A systematic use of market contracts, called options, purchased before the crisis happened, might have alleviated it, says Philip Protter, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Protter stresses that it is unclear why new types of options, called energy derivatives, were not used to good effect. This, he says, could have been the fault of regulators, or utilities themselves, "or the inadequacies of what is, after all, a new kind of market."