A Cornell horse was the sole DNA donor for the entire horse genome, which has been recently completed with help from the beginning from Doug Antczak, a veterinary immunologist. (Nov. 16, 2009)
Now is a good time to review your retirement plans and to make an appointment with a retirement vendor representative to review your investments. (Nov. 13, 2009)
Four employees share their experiences with the Cornell Program for Healthy Living, one of the endowed health care plans available during open enrollment, which ends Nov. 30. (Nov. 13, 2009)
Events on campus this week include alumnus and lifestyle expert Katie Brown, an urban version of 'Romeo and Juliet' and a benefit concert for Cornell's Hospital for Animals. (Nov. 12, 2009)
At the first Cornell intercampus debate Nov. 4, students from Ithaca debated Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar students in Doha about funding from tobacco companies. The Cornell-Ithaca team won. (Nov. 12, 2009)
Elmira Mangum, senior associate provost at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has been appointed by Provost Kent Fuchs as Cornell's vice president for budget and planning, effective Feb. 1, 2010.
The Second Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference, held last month, focused on how to best ways to translate basic research in the social and behavioral sciences into real-world practices. (Nov. 12, 2009)
University delegates returned a rare collection of fungi to China Nov. 7, 70 years after it was smuggled out of the country and brought to Cornell for safekeeping. (Nov. 12, 2009)
Six public discussions and a series of informal brown-bag lunches will offer the Cornell community a chance to comment on task force recommendations that affect the university as a whole.