New information on the materials that make up the structure of asteroid families will be presented by Shelte Bus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at a press conference Tuesday, the second day of the International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference.
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.
Professor Emeritus Thomas Eisner, a world-renowned authority on animal behavior, chemical ecology and evolution, died from complications of Parkinson's disease March 25 at home in Ithaca. He was 81.
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)
Gerald 'Gerry' Smith Thomas, Ph.D. '78, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease Aug. 16 in Ithaca. He was 75. A celebration of his life will take place Aug. 27 at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel. (Aug. 22, 2011)
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.
Many patients with AIDS in Haiti who received antiretroviral therapy had a one-year survival of 87 percent for adults and 98 percent for children, triple the 30 percent one-year survival of Haitian patients without the therapy, according to a study.
Rendering some of the world’s toxic soils moot, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell researchers are learning to grow stress-tolerant crops on formerly non-farmable land.
Cornell University will celebrate its 135th Commencement Sunday, May 25, with more than 6,000 graduates receiving degrees at a ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. President Hunter Rawlings, who will present the commencement address and confer degrees, will preside over his eighth and final commencement ceremony as Cornell's president. He is retiring from the presidency June 30 and will assume a professorship in the university's Department of Classics. The commencement ceremony caps two days of celebratory events at Cornell. (May 13, 2003)
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 12. The meeting will be held in Room A/B of the Cornell Club.