Workers poured 200 yards of concrete continuously for more than 12 hours on Sept. 28 to form the dome that is a signature architectural feature of Paul Milstein Hall. (Oct. 4, 2010)
The athletic shoes on your feet came from around the world: the American cowhide was tanned in South Korea, the Taiwanese synthetic rubber was derived from Saudi Arabian petroleum, the shoe box was made in the United States and Indonesian rainforest trees provided the tissue paper inside the box.
America's major research universities have enjoyed a long period of unprecedented success, but they are facing a rapidly changing environment in which higher education is becoming deregulated and subject to ever-increasing scrutiny, writes Frank H.T. Rhodes in his new book.
Cornell researchers have revealed a process that has stumped scientists for many years: exactly how an acid derived from vitamin A enters a cell's nucleus, where it has strong anti-carcinogenic effects.
New York, NY (May 17, 2004) -- Imagine a puzzle made up of one hundred billion pieces, each reacting to the other, and you have a glimpse of the enormity of the challenge facing researchers bent on understanding how brain cells work together to create human perception, thought, and action. Every day, over 50,000 neuroscientists around the globe collect data on just these types of neural interactions, publishing their collected facts and figures in over 300 journals and scientific assemblies worldwide. But the sheer quantity and scope of neuroscientific data means that individual researchers cannot hope to utilize but a small fraction of what is available.--Many experts -- including Dr. Daniel Gardner, a Weill Cornell Medical College Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Director of the College's Laboratory of Neuroinformatics -- now believe the time has come to give this community of scientists a better means of accessing -- and re-analyzing -- this vital data.
Farmers and other interested agriculturists will be at the Agricultural Environmental Management Conference and Workshop, coordinated by Cornell University, May 28-29, at the Holiday Inn, 75 North St., Auburn, N.Y. The media is invited to attend.
Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.