Cornell sophomore Nathan H. Poffenbarger, 20, of Woodsboro, Md., was charged Sunday morning (Feb. 19) with felony assault for allegedly stabbing 22-year-old Charles Holiday, a black Union College senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., who was visiting the Cornell campus.
In his third interactive webcast with Cornell alumni and friends, President David Skorton addressed the university's research goals, state funding and fiscal challenges. (July 30, 2009)
Nelson E. Roth, a partner in an Ithaca law firm and special prosecutor in the recent state police evidence-tampering investigation, has been appointed an associate university counsel in the Cornell Counsel's Office.
The next U.S. administration must work with weak Middle Eastern states and focus on Asia, especially China, asserts foreign policy expert Francis Fukuyama '74. (April 25, 2008)
Asian-American/Asian students, especially males, are under unique pressures to meet high expectations of parents by succeeding in such traditional predetermined careers as medicine and engineering, said Dr. Henry Chung '84, assistant vice president for student health at New York University, speaking on campus April 13. (April 19, 2006)
What would Cornell Reunion Weekend be without video portraits of the lives of graduates from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) by videographers Phil and Maddy Handler?
Among all American colleges and universities, Cornell University's motto is the best, according to Motto magazine, which recently released its first annual Top 10 Motto List. (Aug. 6, 2007)
Physicians who prescribe the regular use of beta-agonist drugs for asthma could be endangering their patients, two new studies by researchers at Cornell and Stanford universities find. One study compiles previously published clinical trials to conclude that patients could both develop a tolerance for beta-agonists and be at increased risk for asthma attacks, compared with those who do not use the drug at all. The second study shows that beta-agonist use increases cardiac risks, such as heart attacks, by more than two-fold, compared with the use of a placebo. Furthermore, the researchers say that their analyses lead them to suspect a conflict of interest among scientists who are supported by pharmaceutical companies that make beta-agonists, among the world's most widely used drugs. This conflict, they say, could be putting 16 million U.S. asthma sufferers in harm's way. Their statement comes as the American Medical Association is voicing its concerns that drug industry sponsorship of clinical tests is affecting the quality of research. (June 17, 2004)
Researchers have observed that overweight people underestimate how much they eat by twice as much as normal-weight people do. So are heavier people's underestimates intentional?
No, reports a new Cornell study published in the…
ITHACA, N.Y. --- This month, Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large Roger Short, Haris Silajdzic and Jane Goodall will deliver public lectures on subjects ranging from human sexuality to international peacekeeping to saving the planet. Short is an eminent reproductive biologist making his first visit to Cornell as a professor-at-large; Silajdzic, a former prime minister of Bosnia, is making his final professor-at-large visit, as is Goodall, who is one of world's most widely recognized and distinguished primatologists. (April 5, 2002)