Cornell scientists have created the first vaccines that can prevent metritis, one of the most common cattle diseases. The infection not only harms animals and farmers’ profits but also drives more systemic antibiotic use on dairy farms than any other disease.
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, a federal agency, today (Oct. 14) will present Ray Wu, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University, with a $50,000 Frank Annunzio Award in science and technology. The prize honors Wu's pioneering work in genetic engineering, especially in discovering the first method of sequencing DNA and in the production of new cereal crops. The awards ceremony will take place in Washington, D.C., following the capital's 90th annual celebration in honor of Christopher Columbus. Wu is one of four recipients of the 2002 Frank Annunzio Awards, which have been presented annually by the foundation since 1998. (October 14, 2002)
When sound editors needed the twitterings, hoots and songs of a chiffchaff, burrowing owl, European robin, song thrush, common nightingale and rooks at a rookery for 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' they called on Cornell's Macaulay Library
Weill Hall, the new state-of-the-art life sciences building, was officially dedicated Oct. 16 as its primary donors, Sanford and Joan Weill, unlocked a DNA-shaped gate.
Speaking to a sold-out Schwartz Auditorium May 22, Alan Alda brought his experience as an actor to initiate a dialogue on communication's vital role in science.
The resentment public officials feared would prevent a watershed agreement between New York City and municipalities along the Hudson River watershed did not run deep, a Cornell study has found.
The colors of a 1919 painting by N.C. Wyeth have finally come to light, thanks to cutting-edge technologies developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. (Aug. 20, 2009)
Bringing the future into the present, surgeons at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have pioneered the use of robotic surgery for gallbladder removal.
A 12-foot, blight-resistant chestnut tree has recently been planted in a park in White Plains, N.Y., to honor Ezra Cornell and to launch a Cornell Cooperative Extension project to help restore the American chestnut tree to the state. (May 2, 2008)