In areas prone to high radon levels, homes occupied by limited-resource households have significantly higher levels of radon than those occupied by higher income households, and some child-care centers have unsafe levels of radon, lead and mold, according to a new study at Cornell University.
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, visited Cornell Dec. 20, to hear from university researchers and administrators about how the federal government can help improve the process of bringing the fruits of the university's biotechnology research to market.
Nominations for the 2006 Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professorship are now being sought from all from all members of the Cornell community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni and Cornell groups and organizations.
Katharine Leigh '15 is following her passions for seafood and marine biology through an outreach program, Green Catch: Sustaining the Blue by Catching Green.
Cornell writer-in-residence and visiting professor in the Department of Government Irakli Kakabadze was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award 2009 in The Hague, Nov. 18. (Nov. 24, 2009)
Fusarium head blight, a plant disease also known as wheat scab, has taken aim at America's breadbasket and threatens New York's $30 million wheat-growing industry, according to Cornell plant pathologists.
Cornell University Police has received three grants totaling $15,525 that will be used to enhance the department's traffic safety and enforcement efforts. Two grants were awarded by the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles.
A finding by a team of scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College opens the door to better understanding the amino acid taurine's impact on the brain. (Feb. 13, 2008)
In the past, wine made from New York state fruit, like strawberries, apples, cherries and peaches, and vegetables, like rhubarb, has been considered the ugly step-child of winemaking. That was then.
April was not 24 hours old before three all-time snowfall records were shattered in the Northeast, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. April's temperatures were cooler than normal and the month was also drier than normal.