Madhura Kulkarni, a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in natural resources, has been named one of two 2006 Emerging Public Policy Leaders by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), a Washington-based nonprofit scientific…
Cornell professor emerita of design and environmental analysis Madeline Comer Blum, born May 20, 1909, in Osage, Okla., died March 20 in Hemet, Calif., of a heart attack. She was 96.
Blum joined the Cornell faculty in 1955 in…
Kathy Ramsey has a weakness for Sudoku puzzles. So when she glanced at the enticing 25-by-25 square published in the March 2 issue of the Cornell Chronicle (which appeared with a story about Cornell physicist Veit Elser's work on X-ray diffraction microscopy), she figured she would toy with it in her spare time. (March 28, 2006)
An enzyme previously associated with preventing the dementia of Alzheimer's disease now appears to play an even bigger role in safeguarding against the disease, bringing the promise of new targets for drug therapies.
While…
Ira Revels, a Cornell University digital projects librarian, has been named one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers" for 2006.
Revels, who manages the library's Historically Black College and Universities Library Alliance …
The students hailing from Iran, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Jordan had never met each other. They arrived at the workshop in Petra, Jordan, with only the scantest understanding of each other…
Last summer, a previously healthy farmer checked into Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., complaining of sudden fever and confusion. His pulse was racing, and he was breathing rapidly.
Sally Dutko calls her vibrant fiber art wall hangings "fabric paintings," and her work so impressed the jury at the 2005 Fine Arts Quilts national exhibition in Memphis last summer that she walked away with the First Place Award…
Though lobbyists are suffering from an image problem these days, more than 100 academics and university representatives eagerly took on that role March 1-2 when they swarmed the halls of Congress and advocated for the humanities…