Viral gene studies at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine aim to learn how some fish fight skin cancer and how retroviruses function in the development and regression of tumors.
It may be that the notorious "glass ceiling" is actually a glass door, but one that women can open only after other women have already done so, says new research by Professor Heather A. Haveman at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
John Shipley Rowlinson, the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, will be at Cornell University from April 27 through May 4 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse, says one of the nation's leading child abuse experts, and it's high time we recognize it as such. "More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined," says James Garbarino, an internationally recognized expert on child protection.
The annual College Sustainability Report Card lists Cornell as one of about two dozen 'Campus Sustainability Leaders,' but faults the university for not making its investment decisions public. (Feb. 7, 2007)
Glenn Altschuler encounters it a lot these days: the fear among undergraduate students, particularly in the liberal arts, that they won't be sufficiently "marketable" upon graduation. In response, the dean of Cornell's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and other administrators and faculty have created the Summer Program in International Business, an eight-week curriculum that will give students in fields ranging from anthropology to electrical engineering a hands-on introduction to the business world.
Carl HopkinsAlthough these fish look alike and have the same DNA genetic makeup, they have very different electrical signals and will only mate with fish that produce the same signals. Cornell researchers believe that these…
Three Cornell labor experts discussed the recent split between the AFL-CIO and breakaway unions SEIU, UNITE-HERE and others, as part of a Sept. 2 pre-Labor Day panel at the ILR School.
John Callister, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named director of Cornell's Harvey Kinzelberg Enterprise Engineering Program.
President Hunter R. Rawlings, delivering the farewell Commencement address of his yearlong interim presidency, spoke at length about how gifted faculty members can make education "a life-changing experience." He invoked many of…