The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a surveillance program for British cattle that were imported to the United States before bovine spongiform encephalopathy in England prompted a 1989 embargo on cattle from the United Kingdom.
When a Malaysian friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and could not find any information about the disease in Malaysian libraries, Professor Rosemary Caffarella began an effort to fill the information gap.
A researcher from Kentucky State University has chosen Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center to fulfill a faculty-training grant that will allow him to create a nanobiotechnology course at his home institution.
John A. Swanson '61, M.Eng. '63, has committed $10 million to boost undergraduate education in the College of Engineering - including its experiential learning opportunities. (April 19, 2012)
Cornell University's Lake Source Cooling project has entered the pilot-testing phase and is operating at about 25 percent of its full capacity to cool central campus facilities by utilizing the naturally cold water of Cayuga Lake.
Climate change could force 100 million people to lose their homes; entire countries will be underwater, according to the documentary 'Climate Refugees' and an Oct. 14 panel discussion. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new study from Cornell University and the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"I was frightened, and I was devastated," said Burt Neuborne '61, recalling the murder of one of his Cornell classmates, Michael Schwerner '61, and two other civil rights workers at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
The women's basketball team clinched a share of the Ivy League crown with Harvard and Dartmouth, and will play March 16 to determine who gets the automatic berth in the NCAA tourney. (March 12, 2008)