About 11 months after the start of an El Niño event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with subsequent cholera outbreaks.
Gannett: Cornell University Health Services has been awarded the certificate of accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc. for achieving nationally recognized standards for quality health care set by the Chicago-based accrediting organization.
Dispelling widely held myths about various ethnic groups' tolerance of crowding, a new Cornell University study finds that Asian Americans and Latin Americans are just as uncomfortable in crowded homes as are Anglo Americans (Americans of European descent) and African Americans.
Who is the rightful parent of a test-tube baby? How should a physician honor a patient's right to die? Does the use of stem cells from human embryos in life-saving research violate a congressional ban? Should there be such a ban?
After a barn-burner semi-final match against Singapore, Cornell's Big Red team beat a tough German team to take first place in the Small Robots League in Robocup in Melbourne, Australia.
In the 19th century, fundamental discoveries were made by unlocking the chemistry of carbon, but wide exploitation of these major discoveries came slowly. It took some years, for example, before this knowledge led to the development of new drugs and synthetic fibers.
Professors Jon C. Clardy of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Jonathan D. Culler of the Departments of English and of Comparative Literature have been appointed senior associate deans for the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 7. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York.
Michelle D. Wang, assistant professor of physics at Cornell, has been named a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar. Her research into the molecular mechanisms of gene expression will be supported by up to $1 million in grants to the university over the next five years from the W.M. Keck Foundation.