Health Awareness Week is making a grand return to Cornell University during the week of Jan. 27. The 22nd annual edition of campuswide health-related presentations and educational activities.
When the Patriot Act passed Congress weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, federal law-enforcement officials received more power to eavesdrop on telephone calls, secretly monitor e-mail communication and find out what library-card holders have been reading.
A new book by Daniel R. Altschuler, director of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, makes a big bang itself as it creatively attempts to answer some of these questions while covering topics ranging from astronomy to physics, and paleontology to geology.
Among 473 of the alien plant species that have invaded from Europe and become naturalized in the United States as noxious weeds, the "most successful" traveled light.
Corporate law faculty across the United States have joined in support of a rule recently proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would make lawyers involved in executing corporate transactions more accountable for addressing client fraud.
An oversight committee for Arecibo Observatory, the national astronomical facility in Puerto Rico, has been established to act as a management link between Cornell, which manages the huge radio telescope, and the U.S. funding agency, the National Science Foundation.
Even if implemented to the maximum, renewable energy sources would replace only about half the U.S. consumption of oil, natural gas and coal, according to an analysis by ecologists at Cornell. Furthermore, the analysis states alternative energy systems -- such as hydroelectric, solar and wind power and biofuels -- if fully developed would occupy up to one-sixth of America's land area.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin today (Dec. 20) issued the following statement on the status of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning: "Based on the extensive conversations that have taken place with the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and its several constituencies over the last several months, we do not recommend the dissolution of the College.
New York, NY (December 19, 2002) - Physicians in the Departments of Urology and Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center have become the first in New York City to perform robotic urologic surgery on a child. The procedure, robotic pediatric pyeloplasty, corrects a common congenital malformation that, if left untreated, will endanger kidney function. It is a less-invasive alternative to the traditional "open" method, which requires a large, scarring incision.Dr. Dix Poppas, Chief of Pediatric Urology at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell and the Richard Rodgers Family Associate Professor in Pediatric Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College, performed the surgery on a seven-year-old boy from Wallington, NJ, correcting a uretero-pelvic junction obstruction (UPJ), a narrowing of the kidney where it connects to the ureter. As many as one in 200 children are born with a degree of hydronephrosis, a dilation of the inside of the kidney that results from obstructions to the flow of urine; a large majority of these cases are due to UPJ.
New York, NY (December 19, 2002) - A new surgical technique, developed and pioneered by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell urologist, prevents the unnecessary removal of testes for some men with testicular tumors, ultimately preserving their fertility. Hidden testicular tumors can now be correctly identified and safely removed by ultrasound guided needle localization aided by an operative microscope. Weill Cornell was the first in the world to perform the procedure and demonstrate its efficacy.The new technique is discussed in a recently published issue of the "Journal of Urology," and was presented earlier this year at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association.