Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, leader of a research group at the Max Planck Institute, joins the Cornell astronomy faculty as an associate professor to work on the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?
Ronald G. Crystal, M.D., professor of genetic medicine and director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, will be the opening speaker at a day-long media workshop, "Cancer Biology: From Research to Recovery," in New York City, June 21.
NEW YORK -- In past weeks, Cornellians in New York City celebrated the renaissance of Hillel, went birdwatching in Central Park and helped forge collaborations between labor and protectors of the environment worldwide.
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About 13,000 Cornell hockey fans helped to sell out New York City's Madison Square Garden, Nov. 24. And despite Cornell's 6-3 loss to Boston University, the fans enjoyed turning the venerable Garden into 'Lynah East.' (Nov. 27, 2007)
Eight undergraduates each earned $5,000 awards for their distinguished work in fashion design and business in the national YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund competition.
A tree grows in Brooklyn — despite big-city air pollutants. Meanwhile, identical trees planted downwind of city pollution grow only half as well — a surprising finding that ecologists in a Cornell University-based study, reported in the current issue of Nature.
Assistant professor of art Michael Ashkin has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation supporting his upcoming solo sculpture exhibition in Vienna, Austria. (April 30, 2009)
Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have discovered the precise molecular steps that enable immune cells implicated in certain forms of asthma and allergy to develop and survive in the body.
Weill Cornell Medicine celebrated one of its best Match Days ever March 17, with 100 percent of the graduating medical students matching to residency positions - the next three to seven years of their medical careers.