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.
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)
With climate change, Northeast maple syrup production is expected to slightly decline by 2100, and the window for tapping trees will move earlier by about a month, reports a Cornell study.
A Cornell-led study that compared more than 10,000 sequenced genes from 15 African-Americans and 20 European-Americans suggests that European populations have more harmful variations. (Feb. 20, 2008)
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.
Cornell University is using a $3.8 million settlement from the Libyan government to establish an endowed professorship in memory of Kenneth J. Bissett, who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. (December 20, 2005)
Thanks to bioinformatics researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, cell biologists around the globe will soon have a powerful new tool to model complex biochemical processes within the cell.