Just 10 days after a phone call from Amanaka'a, an Amazonian advocacy group that closed its New York offices this month, Cornell University's Anthropology Collections found itself in possession of rare Amazonian artifacts.
Four Cornell University faculty members are among this year's recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Awards. The Faculty Early Career Development Program is NSF's most prestigious awars for new faculty members.
A Cornell fiber and biomaterials scientist working with a trio of graduate students has developed novel biodegradable and biologically active hydrogels that can be used for delivering many kinds of medications inside and outside the body.
Filled with such items as course catalogs and electronic devices, the College of Human Ecology's 10-feet-long time capsule will be opened during Cornell's bicentennial. (Nov. 19, 2012)
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar have identified a region of the date palm genome linked to gender, making it possible to quickly and easily identify male and female trees. (June 1, 2011)
The 20th annual Health Awareness Week on the Cornell is scheduled for Feb. 7-14, and it will feature a free lecture Feb. 9 by Jane Brody, author and Personal Health columnist.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a bright vein of a mineral deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help researchers better understand the history of wet environments on Mars. (Dec. 9, 2011)
A new synthesis and public-information program starting up at Cornell University will examine the environmental risk factors -- including exposure to chemical pesticides -- for breast cancer in women of New York and the United States. Prompted by concern from U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) about higher-than-average "clusters" of breast cancer in some regions of the state, the Cornell program will interpret and disseminate research information on both the established and suspected risk factors for the disease.
With autumn bursting all around, October turned out dry in the Northeast, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. So dry, in fact, that the area-weighted monthly precipitation total of 1.81 inches represented 54 percent of the long-term normal (3.33 inches).
Eight weeks ago, none of the 10 students -- eight undergraduates and two on their way to graduate school, from around the United States and the Caribbean -- quite knew what they were getting into. They came to Cornell for a taste…