Economist David Card said at a public talk March 15 that immigrants tended to take jobs at the high and low ends of the wage spectrum, and their wages don't affect Americans' salaries. (March 17, 2011)
Findings about male mosquito proteins could eventually lead to new ways to control the female mosquitoes that spread the dengue and yellow fever viruses. (March 16, 2011)
Cornell's Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm in Freeville, N.Y., has 110 acres, including 77 research plots where faculty and students study agricultural issues. (March 16, 2011)
Japanese and other students at Cornell have mobilized relief efforts around campus to raise funds, awareness and support for Japan, which experienced a devastating earthquake and tsunami last week. (March 16, 2011)
More than 650 scientists, physicians and other health care practitioners gathered in Doha for the XVII International DALM Symposium on Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome, March 14-16. (March 16, 2011)
Concern for the safety of Indian families riding scooters--- and doodles he made in the boardroom - led to the development of the Tata Nano, Ratan Tata '59, B.Arch. '62 said at a symposium on the car. (March 16, 2011)
A conference and concert festival celebrating the new baroque organ highlighted music of early 1700s Berlin, scientific research, organ design, and the musical passions of a Prussian princess. (March 16, 2011)
Cornell scientists led by Patrick Stover have reported that they have identified a gene that causes neural tube defects (spina bifada and anencephaly) in laboratory mice. (March 15, 2011)