Three members of Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine – Donald F. Smith, Kenneth Simpson and Leslie D. Appel – have won American Veterinary Medical Association awards.
Richard "Rick" Harrison, Ph.D. ’77, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a pioneer in his field, died unexpectedly April 12 while visiting Lizard Island, Australia.
An international team of researchers has discovered a pair of genetic mutations that drive tumor growth in patients who have a deadly subtype of T-cell lymphoma. The findings could lead to new targeted therapies for this aggressive disease.
Four teams of engineering faculty and students each received up to $20,000 from the college to advance their laboratory research toward functioning prototypes.
Better understanding of mosquito seminal fluid proteins – transferred from males to females during mating – may hold keys to controlling the Asian tiger mosquito, which transmits deadly diseases.
Chemical engineers have developed a new method for making large quantities of integral membrane proteins simply and inexpensively, without the use of detergents typically used today.
The Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF), a collaboration between the School of Hotel Administration and the College of Human Ecology, unites hospitality, health and design.
A multidisciplinary research team has identified a mutation on the protein shell of canine parvovirus that helps it to transfer and infect wild forest-dwelling animals, including raccoons.
Rajesh Bhaskaran and Jonathan Butcher are among 65 researchers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's third Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium, Nov. 13-16. (Oct. 17, 2011)