Documents, scientific specimens, works of art and other materials previously available only to a few scholars will be made available worldwide through a new digital imaging program at Cornell. The Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, funded by $2 million in private grants.
Cornell researchers leading a multi-institutional team studying an eye disease infecting house finches have received a five-year $2.5 million National Science Foundation award to continue their work.
For the fourth time in five years, Cornell University's Big Red team has won the international robot soccer competition, known as RoboCup. In finals of the latest competition, held July 2-11 in Padua, Italy, a team of pint-sized robot players built and programmed by Cornell engineering students narrowly beat the RoboRoos from the University of Queensland, Australia, 1-0.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The northward spread of raccoon rabies can be halted by vaccination barrier zones, veterinarians and wildlife biologists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are predicting. A preliminary assessment of vaccine trials in New York, Vermont and Ohio, where oral vaccines are dropped from aircraft into raccoon rabies-free areas, points to the barrier zone strategy as the most promising way to prevent further spread of the disease, the Cornell experts say. But the vaccination barrier should be extended across northern New Hampshire and Maine, they recommend, before treating East Coast states that already are infected with wildlife rabies.
Cornell has joined with Columbia University, New York University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and the University of Chicago in filing a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief.
In his Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 11, author Wes Moore called for more leadership and education to save young people from dangerous alternatives like gangs.
The Afrik! Fashion Show featuring the Kusun Ensemble combined activism-inspired clothing from African cultures and styles with jazz and African music played on traditional Ghanaian instruments.
Islandica, first published in 1908, is available online to the scholarly community in a searchable, open-access format and in print. The series is an extension of the library's Fiske Icelandic Collection. (May 18, 2009)
Revealing the electronic structure of an unusual superconductor may give theorists the tools to understand how superconductors work and create high-temperature versions.