Nearly 1,700 soldiers of the 27th Brigade Combat Team, including three Cornell alumni and four area residents whose wives are staff at Cornell, are preparing for a deployment to Afghanistan in early 2008. (Dec. 6, 2007)
Law Professor Robert Summers is almost a year into serving as principal co-drafter of Rwanda's code of contract law. The entire project, as intricate and complex a piece of legal work as there could be, is being done entirely pro bono. (Dec. 6, 2007)
Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, is stepping down in July 2008 after eight years in that position to return to his faculty position at the Africana Center. (Dec. 5, 2007)
This ties Cornell with Harvard for sixth place among American universities for the number of Fulbrights received in academic year 2007-08. (Dec. 5, 2007)
Women and Hispanics are less likely to be diagnosed with or treated for vascular disease, a leading cause of debilitation and death among the elderly, according to two Weill Cornell studies. (Dec. 5, 2007)
Missy Chase Lapine, author of 'The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals,' has infiltrated kitchen operations at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. (Dec. 5, 2007)
The final steel beam of the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center was installed Nov. 9. (Dec. 5, 2007)
Bruce McCandliss, associate professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, is a 2007 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. (Dec. 5, 2007)
When Cornell researchers and others transplanted living embryonic heart cells into cardiac tissue of mice that had suffered heart attacks, the mice became resistant to cardiac arrhythmias, thereby avoiding one of the most dangerous and fatal consequences of heart attacks. (Dec. 5, 2007)