Gene therapy is a safe and effective way of slowing the debilitating and ultimately fatal effects of Batten disease, Weill Cornell researcher Ronald Crystal and colleagues found. (May 30, 2008)
Attorneys, legal scholars and environmentalists will participate in a Cornell Law School symposium, "Changing of the Guardian: Re-examining the Role of the Federal Government in the Protection of Endangered Species and Environmental Habitat," Feb. 27 and 28.
New research by Karl Pillemer and Weill Cornell Medical College's Mark Lachs and Tony Rosen suggests that aggression and violence between nursing home residents is a prevalent and serious problem. (May 29, 2008)
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Time is fast running out for the semiconductor industry as transistors become ever smaller and their insulating layers of silicon dioxide, already only atoms in thickness, reach maximum shrinkage. In addition, the thinner the silicon layer becomes, the greater the amount of chemical dopants that must be used to maintain electrical contact. And the limit here also is close to being reached. But a Cornell University researcher has caused an information industry buzz with the discovery that it is possible to precisely control the electronic properties of a complex oxide material -- a possible replacement for silicon insulators -- at the atomic level. And this can be done without chemicals. Instead, the dopant is precisely nothing. (August 23, 2004)
Six Cornell professors shed some light on the reality of social behavior during 'A Meeting of the Minds: Decoding Our Decisions' at the Big Red by the Bay event March 18 in San Francisco. (March 24, 2010)
The senior class garnered donations from a record-breaking 53 percent of the class, with a total of $66,402 raised. The check was presented during Senior Convocation, May 24. (May 24, 2008)
Stewart J. Schwab, professor of law at Cornell Law School and a specialist in labor and employment law, has been reappointed the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Law School. (May 23, 2008)