Manhattan Community Board 8 approved Cornell Tech's Roosevelt Island campus plan Dec. 19 as part of New York City's public land use review process. (Dec. 20, 2012)
Daniel T. Lichter, the new Robert S. Harrison Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences and director of the Cornell Population Center, is motivated by the stories behind the data.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine is using a new approach to teach some clinical procedures: self-paced training DVDs. The first focuses on peripheral nerve blocks in dogs. (Sept. 1, 2009)
When plants develop mutually beneficial relationships with animals, mainly insects, those plant families become more diverse (evolve into more species) over time, says a new study.
Dr. Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz and Dr. Dan Landau have won Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) grants totaling nearly $1.5 million for innovative research projects in ovarian cancer and combination cancer therapy.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, aimed at boosting the number of faculty members from historically disadvantaged groups in higher education, has issued a call for applications. (Feb. 18, 2010)