How have U.S. immigration actions changed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks? What do the changes mean for Americans, and what should be done next? A report issued this summer by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has the answers, although a few of its recommendations may irk some on both sides of the political spectrum, says co-author Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell University Law School. (July 14, 2003)
The Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University, the largest academic unit in the United States devoted to the study of and training in human nutrition, has become home to two international centers.
Contrary to popular perception, more large public businesses filed for bankruptcy in the United States in 1998 than in any year in history, except the "boom" years of the early 1990s. This year's rate is also a whopping 57 percent higher than 1997's.
Steven D. Tanksley, Cornell's Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, has been named the 1998 recipient of the prestigious $15,000 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.
The space in front of Bailey Hall is one of the most intensely studied areas on the Cornell campus. Numerous designs have been submitted to improve what everyone generally agrees is an eyesore. One by one, these visions proved…
The presidential and U.S. Senate races are not the only contests roiling the waters in Ithaca. On Nov. 7, residents will vote on a referendum that could allow fluoridation of the municipal water supply for the first time in the upstate city. A Cornell research class has found that while a vocal minority opposes fluoridation, city residents appear to support it.
When a beam of X-rays is fired through a crystallized protein sample, the beam is scattered into a pattern that depends on the arrangement of atoms in the crystal. By decoding that pattern, experts can find the arrangement of the atoms and the shape of the protein molecule.
Tiny blood vessels, viewed beneath a mouse's skin with a newly developed application of multiphoton microscopy, appear so bright and vivid in high-resolution images that researchers can see the vessel walls ripple with each heartbeat – 640 times a minute.
For the first time, Cornell University will provide university-funded health insurance for the majority of its graduate students. The Cornell Board of Trustees at its regular meeting Oct. 28 approved the recommendation.