To feed the world’s burgeoning population while saving it from exhausting natural land resources, the United Nations issued a report on global land use.
A contest held by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise produced innovative, multi-fuel cookers for the developing world.
Nearly one in five nursing home residents in 10 facilities across New York state were involved in at least one aggressive encounter with fellow residents during the four weeks prior to a study by researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell.
A $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Cornell will train agricultural researchers from sub-Saharan Africa in the theory and practice of gender-responsive research.
A $1.7 million NIH grant will be used to better understand why teens are prone to taking risks. The study will use an MRI to compare brains of teens and adults when faced with risky decisions.
A new Weill Cornell Medical College study finds treating terminal late-stage cancer patients with chemotherapy does not improve quality of life and are of no benefit to overall survival.
A common pathogen that can lay dormant in healthy individuals becomes virulent in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, and Cornell biological engineers think they might know why.
Flu vaccine clinics have been scheduled across campus for the fall semester on the Gannett Health Services' website. Free to enrolled students, faculty, staff and retirees with Cornell ID. (Sept. 23, 2010)