Students in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management can now tailor their education to the career path that interests them, rather than choosing courses from a single concentration area. (July 28, 2008)
The Ford Foundation has awarded $300,000 to Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center to help strengthen and sustain the presence of contemporary African and African Diaspora artists on a global scale.
New York, NY (February 13, 2003)--Our brains are the basis of who we are our intellect, our personality, and our emotional states. At the same time, diseases of the brain rank at the top of the list of our most serious health problems, accounting for more long-term care and chronic suffering than all other medical problems put together. Thus, researchers have long sought to learn more about how the brain works, and how to treat a myriad of brain-related disorders -- from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's, from multiple sclerosis to stroke; from traumatic brain injury to spinal cord injury, and from depression to pain. For the first time, a single, comprehensive home reference, The DANA Guide to Brain Health, is making all of their discoveries accessible to the lay public, along with practical, hands-on advice.
It's critical for physicians to have research experience, says Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D. '78. A practicing biochemist, DiCorleto is chair of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute. The clinic was ranked among the 10 best…
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has appointed Valerie Reyna, professor and director of extension in the Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology, to serve on the President's National…
Maddie's Fund has awarded Cornell 's College of Veterinary Medicine a $1.7 million grant over six years to support a program in shelter medicine, to be called Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell.
The past and future of modernism in Havana and Miami as it is embodied in art, buildings and landscapes is the subject of a conference at Cornell this Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17-18.
Cornell is announcing the first winter program of the Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST), a project of the Cornell Public Service Center. POST is an opportunity for students to participate in hands-on community service, learn about the Ithaca community and make a group of new friends.
Cornell researchers have captured the sharpest mid-infrared images yet of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years wide orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.