In a decision dated March 23, 1998, New York State Supreme Court Justice Phillip R. Rumsey dismissed remaining claims in a lawsuit brought by Professor James Maas against Cornell.
Health insurance should be included in official measures of U.S. income and poverty, because it will help us to better evaluate public policies like Obamacare, according to a Cornell economist. (Nov. 19, 2012)
The 'Thinking Like a Scientist' program, developed by Cornell's Wendy Williams, teaches disadvantaged children the scientific method and why it is so relevant to their lives. (July 19, 2007)
Two years ago, the viburnum leaf beetle, a pest with an appetite for certain ornamental bushes, was found in upstate New York along the Lake Ontario shore. Since then it has been chewing its way steadily south.
Xiling ShenA graphical abstract illustrates how a microRNA acts as a hard switch to determine colon cancer stem cell fate.
Like picking a career or a movie, cells have to make decisions – and cancer results from cells making…
Layaway 'is being promoted with a moral shine of being debt-free when, like interest charges, all it does is sap working people's incomes,' says the ILR School's Louis Hyman. (Nov. 17, 2011)
Dozens of astronomers, physicists and engineers came together for a symposium July 28-29 at Cornell to celebrate the 65th birthday of Joe Burns, the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering, a professor of astronomy and a…
Three Cornell student groups each recently received the Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award, which comes with a grant of $1,500 to further their community service projects.
Veteran stage, television and film actor Harold Gould, M.A. '48, Ph.D. '53, best known for his roles in 'The Sting' and 'Rhoda,' died Sept. 11 in Woodland Hills, Calif. (Sept. 14, 2010)
Walter LaFeber's latest book was intended for use in the lecture hall. But 'Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism' (Norton, $22.95) has proven to be compelling grist for a much wider audience.