Cornell engineers say they developed a microvascular system that can nourish growing tissues, a step that may one day allow laboratories to grow synthetically engineered tissues for transplants. (Oct. 5, 2007)
Cornell's monitoring of Cayuga Lake water quality could become part of a much more extensive system, if the several organizations currently monitoring the lake and surrounding watershed can work together. (Oct. 5, 2007)
This all-things-buggy event is free and open to the public, Oct. 20 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Department of Entomology in Comstock Hall. See an insect zoo, hands-on exhibits, racing cockroaches and more.
Heavy traffic is expected on campus Tuesday, Oct. 9 in connection with the Dalai Lama's 2 p.m. talk, 'A Human Approach to World Peace,' in Barton Hall. (Oct. 5, 2007)
Cambridge University Press has asked libraries around the world to pull 'Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World' from their shelves. Cornell Library refused the request. (Oct. 5, 2007)
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, David Lipsky writes about the new UAW-GM contract's retiree health-care trust fund, called a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, which may have uncertain long-term effects. (Oct. 5, 2007)
The School of Human Ecology began as a department in the agriculture college in 1907. It came into its own in 1919, and 50 years later was renamed the College of Human Ecology. (Oct. 5, 2007)
Strategies for improving retention and achievement among minority college students were explored at a conference sponsored by Cornell, the Teagle Foundation and Credit Suisse, Oct. 2-3 in New York City. (Oct. 4, 2007)
A revised Campus Code of Conduct was discussed Oct. 2 at a public forum in Willard Straight Hall. The Codes and Judicial Committee is soliciting further comments on the code until Oct. 15. (Oct. 4, 2007)