Former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres will give a public lecture at Cornell on Wednesday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in the Newman Arena of the Cornell Field House.
For 50 years, the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point on Oneida Lake has been serving as the springboard for a prolific and wide-ranging research program from studies of fish ecology and management to population dynamics, invasion biology and colonial birds.
Cornell's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections includes the Dora Erway Doll Collection, which comprises 37 costume dolls whose clothing and bodies were largely made by students in the 1920s. (Feb. 21, 2008)
Professor Eswar Prasad writes a Cornell Perspectives piece on how he became a more visible advocate for economic policies by jumping from the IMF to Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)
A new publication from the Cornell University Retirement and Well-Being Study provides an in-depth look at how the older Americans fare through the transition to – and in – retirement.
Who is the rightful parent of a test-tube baby? How should a physician honor a patient's right to die? Does the use of stem cells from human embryos in life-saving research violate a congressional ban? Should there be such a ban?
People who saw how much they had already eaten -- e.g., leftover chicken-wing bones -- ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a study by Cornell's Brian Wansink. (April 9, 2007)
The Rockefeller Foundation has given a two-year, $35,000 grant to the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) to assist institutional partners in Madagascar to evaluate methods for boosting rice yields.
NEW YORK -- Biomedical microscopic imaging deep inside living tissue with unprecedented clarity could become routine and widely available with the signing of technology-transfer and collaborative-research agreements today (May 28, 2004) by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, a leading maker of microscopy instrumentation, and by CCTEC, the technology, enterprise and commercialization arm of Cornell University. The license for two-photon laser microscopy (also known as multiphoton microscopy, and protected by patents dating back to July 23, 1991) has been transferred from the British firm Bio-Rad Laboratories to Germany's Carl Zeiss. Both Bio-Rad and Carl Zeiss have been manufacturing confocal laser microscopes incorporating multiphoton technology. (May 28, 2004)