The dean and four professors from the Cornell Law School will attend four conferences in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong later this month as part of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. (Oct. 7, 2008)
When a large company offered cash rewards to its obese employees to lose weight, few of the workers lost more weight than those in the control group, reports two Cornell researchers. (June 17, 2009)
A curious corrugated pattern in Saturn's rings and similar features in Jupiter's main ring could be the residual effects of comet collisions, report astronomers at Cornell and the SETI Institute. (April 1, 2011)
Cornell researchers were recently awarded $1.5 million as part of a $9 million grant to develop a unified, interdisciplinary and tech-savvy approach to outpace the pathogen. (March 31, 2011)
It has long been known that Americans living in poverty are at a much higher risk than the more affluent for exposure to such health-threatening environmental hazards as air pollution and landfills.
Cornell Law School received more than 6,000 applications this year - a jump of 52.5 percent from last year and an all-time record for the school. (Feb. 4, 2010)
Mary F. Berens, director of alumni affairs, has been named senior campaign officer for Cornell's ambitious $4 billion fund-raising campaign. Her appointment to this newly created position is effective Sept. 1. (March 7, 2007)
Researchers have reported significant progress in making a new generation of transistors based on gallium nitride, a material that promises to deliver up to a hundred times as much power at microwave frequencies as the semiconductors now used in cellular telephones, military radar and satellite transmitters.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced the reappointment of W. Kent Fuchs as the Joseph Silbert Dean of the College of Engineering for a second five-year term.