Chief of Police Kathy Zoner joined 10 other law enforcement officers, district attorneys, victim advocates and college administrators in a roundtable discussion of sexual assaults on college campuses, June 23 in Washington, DC.
Charles Wiggens Jr. spoke at the Taking Control of Your Diabetes session, April 30, in the Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium about how to live with the disease. (May 8, 2008)
Cornell's first president, Andrew D. White, and his successors, saw medicine as a crucial university offering, and courses in the medical sciences were first offered in 1878. (Sept. 20, 2007)
The Cornell Outdoor Education's Intercollegiate Rock Climbing Competition Nov. 2 raised $650 to benefit the local nonprofit OURS & YOURS Youth Organization, founded in 2005 by a Cornell student. (Nov. 4, 2008)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a one-year approval for a novel plant protectant that has been tested at Cornell University as a seed coating for onions. This new treatment promises to help save New York's onion crop, providing that it can gain full approval for use beyond 1996.
New drugs from fungi, more economical production of hybrid crop plants and children's vaccines in potato slices will be discussed at the 13th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium.
For years, community and state services have been fragmented, problem-specific, crisis-driven and focused on "rescuing or fixing" families in trouble. From now on, New York state staff who work with families -- including those in New York City -- can use an approach developed by researchers at Cornell University that helps families develop their own capacity to solve problems and achieve long-lasting self-reliance.
When we don't feel confident about our government, we choose indirect ways of showing support, such as buying U.S.-based products, according to a study co-authored by Eugenia C. Wu. (Jan. 19, 2011)