Research involving cancer-targeting silica particles, known as Cornell dots, has shown that the particles can neutralize nutrient-deprived cancer cells by a cell-death process called ferroptosis.
Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, Cornell’s provost for medical affairs and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the Medical College, has been named president and chief executive officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
From using drones to track nutrient management in upstate corn fields to working with Head Start programs in Harlem, Cornell Cooperative Extension interns helped New York communities this summer.
In a new course, students at Cornell Law School are studying water law -- and learning that it has become a hot-button issue for communities.
The course, Water Law in Theory and Practice, is a clinic that is both theoretical and…
Harold Levy, chancellor of the New York City public schools and a Cornell University alumnus, will be on campus Feb. 13 to speak about the field of teaching and to recruit Cornell students for the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
This week on campus, learn about veterinary medicine at an open house; Cornell’s Employee Recognition Day, and seeing the future – on film in 1925 and at World’s Fair sites in “Lost Utopias.”
Five of Cornell's buildings were recognized as exemplary New York state green buildings at the 10th Annual New York State Green Building Conference in Syracuse, March 29-30. (April 2, 2012)
For the Northeast, it has been hotter than ever. The upstate New York cities of Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca, Utica and Binghamton have had their hottest June and July ever officially recorded, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers report on a new sterilizing device that can be safely used on electronic equipment used in hospitals to reduce risk of infection quicker, easier and cheaper.
Cornell engineers have created a synthetic immune organ that produces antibodies and can be controlled in the lab, completely separate from a living organism.