Kidney ultrasound plus a visual examination of the bladder and urethra appears to be the most cost-effective way to screen for cancers of the genitourinary tract of those with blood in their urine.
Irwin Mark Jacobs '54, founding chairman and CEO emeritus of Qualcomm, and his wife, Joan Klein Jacobs '54, have made a $133 million gift to create the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.
Scientists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are using the facilities and expertise of the Cornell Theory Center to turn reams of weather and climate data into practical advice for New York farmers.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be the first federal organization to use VIVO, a Web application conceived and developed at Cornell, to help scientists network and find potential collaborators. (Oct. 28, 2010)
A makeathon to develop affordable assistive technology for people with disabilities, sponsored by Cornell, will be held April 21-23 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory, also known as (CL)3, in Uris Library marked its first anniversary in August. Approximately 10,000 users have taken advantage of the lab during public hours, and seven courses use the lab for all or some of their classes.
A group led by chemistry professor Peng Chen reports the first quantitative visualization of enhanced catalysis activity at the metal-metal interface of a single-molecule bimetallic nanocatalyst.
Twelve Cornell assistant professors have been awarded research grants by the Affinito-Stewart Grants Program from the President’s Council of Cornell Women to increase long-term retention of women.
J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, will return to Cornell as the next dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Her five-year term as the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean begins Jan. 1, 2019.