Rachel P. Maines, an independent scholar who is employed as a technical processor in the Nestle Library in Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, is the recipient of this year's Herbert Feis Prize in recognition.
A team of Cornell scientists, aided by a $837,000 Microbial Observatory grant from the National Science Foundation, is going after methane-generating bacteria and other microbes.
Scientists associated with the Cornell University Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in Biotechnology have received a U.S. patent on an immune cell receptor protein that is believed to be the site of infection for the virus that causes AIDS.
Scientists associated with the Cornell's Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in Biotechnology have received a U.S. patent on an immune cell receptor protein that is believed to be the site of infection for the virus that causes AIDS.
An address by Jackson Katz, founder and director of MVP Strategies Inc., an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to the U.S. military services, colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, community organizations and corporations, will highlight activities during Health Awareness Week on the Cornell.
Cornell University alumni and friends gave the university a single-year record of $219.8 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 23).
It's a constitutional given that the nine justices of the nation's highest court are appointed for life. But Cornell law professor Roger Cramton is asking: Should they be?
A melody of staccato piano notes sings out from the speakers of Victor K. Wong's desktop computer. But it is not a melody made by Bach, or Liberace, or even Alicia Keys. It is the melody of color. Wong, a Cornell University graduate student from Hong Kong who lost his sight in a road accident at age seven, is helping to develop innovative software that translates color into sound. (January 21, 2005)
The fungus responsible for the legendary Irish potato famine of the last century is staging a strong resurgence and scientists want to fight back. Researchers from Poland, Russia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, Peru, Mexico and the United States will gather in Ithaca on Oct. 7 and 8 at Cornell University to discuss the problem and how to fight it.
Two scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College - Drs. Roberto Levi and Randi Silver - report on studies showing how the activation of a histamine receptor, the H3-receptor.