A New York physician who has played a leading role in testing the Novartis drug Gleevec against leukemia is also finding it effective against a second disease involving blood-cell overproduction.
"Why do all the black students live in Ujamaa?"
"My roommate is a queer." … "Yeah, I know -- he's my boyfriend."
"The guy wanted $50 for this jacket, but I jewed him down."
"Freaking Asians, always wrecking the curve in my math…
On New Year's Day, 29 Cornell students and eight faculty members left Ithaca for a three-week study tour of India and Thailand as part of Cornell's International Agriculture in the Developing Nations II class.
Plant biologist Charles Uhl, professor emeritus and a well-recognized expert on the cytogenetics of the stonecrop family, died Aug. 29 at age 92. (Sept. 16, 2010)
A symposium on child welfare and child protective policies over the past 50 years is slated for May 5, at Cornell University. The symposium celebrates Child Abuse Prevention Month and the career of James Cameron.
Strengthening its outreach commitment to the local and statewide economies, Cornell has consolidated the economic-development functions of four of its technology-access units into a new Cornell Office of Economic Development.
Grape growers and food processors benefit from water sensors for accurate moisture readings. Cornell researchers have developed a fingertip-sized sensor that is a hundred times more sensitive than current devices, and they hope to produce it for as little as $5 each.
A study finds that veterans who have experienced battle choose less risky - and therefore less profitable - investments than peers who have no combat experience. (April 9, 2012)
"Work is at the core of human dignity," says Leila Janah, CEO and founder of Samasource, which connects poor people with tech jobs, during the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture.
Ten seconds of video that rocked the world of ornithology - featuring a fuzzy but painstakingly analyzed ivory-billed woodpecker sighting - is now available on the Web site of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology