In a new initiative, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have teamed up to develop strategies to better understand and enhance patient participation in clinical trials. (Sept. 13, 2007)
More than 70 astronomers gathered on Capitol Hill Sept. 12-13, not to talk about the demise of a major national research facility, but to plan for its scientific future. (Sept. 13, 2007)
Cornell scientists are teaming up with the New York State Department of Transportation to test a promising and effective new method of disposing of deer killed by motorists: composting. (Sept. 13, 2007)
A man with a severe head injury who spent more than five years in a minimally conscious state is now communicating and recovering his ability to move after his brain was stimulated with pulses of electric current. (Sept. 13, 2007)
Faculty and students from Weill Cornell Medical College and wilderness medicine experts from around the country will converge in Ithaca Sept. 26-28, for the inaugural Northeast Wilderness Medicine Conference. (Sept. 13, 2007)
David P. Hajjar has been appointed senior executive vice dean and executive vice provost of Weill Cornell Medical College. The appointment was announced by WCMC Dean Antonio M. Gotto Jr. in July. (Sept. 13, 2007)
Cornell University's lack of church affiliation made it suspect in some quarters. Ezra Cornell's young university, said its critics, was a godless cesspool of vice. (Sept. 13, 2007)
The music department's fall season features jazz, world and classical music, Indian dance, music for Halloween, music for laptops and acclaimed guest performers. (Sept. 13, 2007)
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer Natalie Angier spoke about her latest book, 'The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science,' Sept. 11 on campus. (Sept. 12, 2007)
The University Assemblies' Codes and Judicial Committee will share the revised Campus Code of Conduct with the Cornell community in October. (Sept. 12, 2007)