Cornell undergraduates with a passion for social change can exercise their instincts for community service and receive credits through the new Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels Undergraduate Action Research Fellowship Program.
Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali will be the featured artist for the Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series Monday, April 12, at Cornell University. His performance is free and open to the public. A noted poet, playwright and former sixth-grade teacher who has appeared in two seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," Mali will bring his humorous, provocative, full-body poetry assault to the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room beginning at 7:30 p.m. (April 1, 2004)
The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control. (March 23, 2010)
A deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in a variety of freshwater fish in the northeastern United States by Cornell University researchers. (June 14, 2006)
Cornell University's Division of Financial Affairs has announced that Marguerite Spencer has been named director of university policy and division communications and Jeffrey Silber has been named director for financial research administration. Both report to Joanne DeStefano, vice president for financial affairs and university controller. (August 11, 2003)
Even though women work - and prefer to work - fewer hours than men, they invest more of themselves in their jobs than do male workers. That is just one finding from the Cornell Couples and Career Study at Cornell.
The Graduate Community Initiative is a vision statement and proposal to build community and address critical concerns among Cornell's graduate and professional students. (July 20, 2007)
NEW YORK, NY (August 14, 2002)Researchers at Columbia University and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital suggest that a higher consumption of calories and fat may translate into an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) for some people.The results of their study, reported in the August issue of Archives of Neurology, suggest that this risk may arise in individuals who have a variant of apolipoprotein E, known as apo E4. Apolipoprotein E (apo E) is a cholesterol-processing protein responsible for transporting cholesterol in and out of cells. There are different variants of apo E, designated by numbers. People inherit one form of apo E from each parent. Studies have shown that those with one copy of the variant apo E4 are at greater risk of developing AD, while those who inherit 2 copies are at even greater risk.
Cornell, with support from the Foundation for Prevention and Early Resolution of Conflict, plans to establish an institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations for the study of conflict resolution. The institute is expected to open in August 1996.
Cornell's buildings have been getting makeovers recently. Some have had their heating, ventilation and cooling systems overhauled and refined. Others have had occupancy sensors and variable speed drives installed to curb wastage. Didn't notice? Well, that's kind of the point. (December 06, 2005)