A Cornell and Smithsonian Institution study published in PLOS-ONE has found that how sperm is collected in Asian elephants matters in preserving this endangered species.
Nearly half of the more than 900 January degree candidates took part in the Dec. 19 recognition ceremony, held before thousands of family and friends in Barton Hall.
A 33-year-old mother of two from Yonkers, New York is the first patient in the U.S. to receive robotically-assisted atrial septal defect repair, without a chest incision of any kind. The operation was performed as part of a clinical trial sanctioned by the FDA at NewYork-Presbyterian's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on July 24, 2001.
The Mars rover Opportunity, NASA’s robotic geologist fitted with an array of tools to search for evidence of water, ended its mission Feb. 13 – three weeks after its 15th anniversary and long past its 90-day warranty.
Despite the immensity of Hurricane Floyd, which after sweeping over Florida is bearing down on the Carolina's and threatening the U.S. eastern seaboard, climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell believe the storm will not pack the watery wallop of hurricane-turned-tropical storm Agnes in 1972.
A five-day intensive professional development program for health executives is slated for May 4 through 9 at Cornell. The Health Executives Development Program, now in its 39th year.