One evening next week, a helicopter fitted with an infrared camera will be criss-crossing the campus looking for leaks in Cornell's 25 miles of high-pressure steam heating pipes. (Nov. 15, 2011)
Digitize mail and paper files so employees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environment and provide alcohol swabs and cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free.
Fabrics have always been an integral part of flight, according to a Cornell University video. And now, this connection will be a featured part of a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit in the new gallery, How Things Fly, in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Charles Van Loan, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has been named the new chair of the university's Department of Computer Science.
John O'Brien, M.A. '89, worked for more than 20 years - 14 of them as a quadriplegic - to complete his Cornell Ph.D. in architecture history. (May 22, 2009)
Events this week include a public reception at the Johnson Museum, 'The Servant of Two Masters' onstage, a Literary Luncheon, new documentaries, 1950s school films and a debate on the financial crisis. (Sept. 10, 2009)
Researchers for Cornell's Lake Source Cooling project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
New York, NY (March 24, 2004) -- Two heart tests are better than one when it comes to predicting the risk of dying of cardiovascular disease or any cause, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers report in the April issue of the journal Hypertension.Those patients with an ECG finding of ST depression -- a possible sign of heart disease -- and an echocardiogram that showed an enlarged left ventricle were more likely to die during the study than those with normal test results. When the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, enlarges and thickens, it could be a sign the heart is struggling to pump efficiently.