Researchers have produced a "photo album" of more than 30 shapes an oscillated drop of water can take – a fundamental insight into how droplets behave.
User-friendly help is available in Tompkins, Seneca, Monroe, Schuyler and Steuben counties to help seniors sort through Medicare drug plans, thanks to a pilot project in Cornell's College of Human Ecology.
A grassroots consortium of landowners, loggers and forest industry representatives, working together with interested organizations and the Cornell Water Resources Institute, has issued 14 recommendations.
A $20 million gift to Cornell from an alumnus will launch major new instructional and research initiatives in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art facilities in growing technologies for electronic and photonic devices, biotechnology and advanced materials processing.
Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer - particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer, according to a new Cornell study. (Nov. 11, 2008)
Cornell biologists have shown how tiny molecular motors carrying target proteins help orient the spindle-like apparatus that transfers genetic material from the nucleus of a mother cell to the daughter. The research explains an essential mechanism in the birth of a new cell, and how failures of molecular motors can have dire consequences for new cell formation.
In the course Textiles, Apparel and Innovation, students partnered with local senior citizens to develop new products, including an electronic pillbox and a multipurpose walker complete with GPS tracking. (Dec. 14, 2007)
A gathering of Indian leaders from within New York state has been scheduled for June 27 and 28, 1997, at the Triphammer Lodge and Conference Center in Ithaca. Sessions will begin at 9:30 a.m. and last until 5 p.m.
Science-based information on the relationships between breast cancer and environmental risk factors -- including pesticides and diet – is offered at a Cornell University-based web site. In time for October's national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the web site from the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State has been expanded with several features.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of new theoretical models of governance? How do these new models affect our assessment of administrative and structural constitutional issues?