Lauren Jacobs, a junior psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, is one of 77 students selected from a national pool of 609 candidates to win a prestigious Truman Scholarship.
Cornell researchers have discovered a gene that boosts the risk of colon cancer in laboratory mice when their diets are inadequate in folate, a B vitamin. The study is published in Cancer Research. (March 28, 2011)
New York, NY (February 27, 2003)--The number of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplants in the United States is increasing and centers with the largest volume have the lowest complication rates, according to results from the first compilation of these procedures in the country. The study, to be published in the February 27th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, was done in response to the lack of comprehensive data or a centralized registry of donor and recipient morbidity and mortality that has led some experts to call for either limitations on which centers can perform the procedure or for government regulation.
Two new books on labor struggles from faculty members in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations were recently published by Cornell University Press.
Ten plant-related topics, from the natural history of Henry Thoreau to the search for new jungle medicine, are scheduled in the Cornell Plantations Fall 1997 Lecture Series, beginning Sept. 18.
The brutal cold of early February cancelled out unusually warm temperatures late in the month, making the temperatures close to normal in the Northeast, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. "As was the case in January, these temperature extremes cancelled each other out, producing a monthly average temperature that was just 0.4 degrees warmer than normal," said Keith Eggleston.
Two Cornell researchers are world experts in studies of little-known plant transport proteins that may be key to easing the ever-growing global food needs.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has announced the formation of a new Provost's Advisory Committee on Distance Learning to help in the development of plans for distance-learning activities.
James Franco – actor, director, writer, artist and perpetual student – delivered the Senior Convocation address May 28 in Schoellkopf Stadium with temperatures pushing 90 degrees.
'Stories of Nature,' an art installation by visiting architecture critic Yehre Suh from April 5-9 on the Arts Quad, will explore various representations of nature in academia. (April 2, 2010)