Virologists at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center isolate hundreds of respiratory and intestinal tract samples each month from New York City's live bird markets in an effort to root out any types of avian influenza virus and prevent such a flu in humans.
For those who attended the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Jan. 17-19, the business of volunteering for the university was equally serious and fun.
Farm Aid's 2007 Upstate-Downstate Food and Farm Caravan stopped at Dilmun Hill, Cornell's student-run organic farm and experiential learning center, Sept. 5. (Sept. 6, 2007)
Michael Huyghue '84 and Seth Payne '97 threw the team a party in downtown Jacksonville to celebrate the team's visit to their city and to wish them luck in the tournament. (March 19, 2010)
Louis Walcer '74 has been named the first director of the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences, Cornell's new life sciences business incubator.
A Cornell team finished second in the 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest, and one student on that team also has advanced to the finals of the Google Code Jam. (Nov. 4, 2008)
Austin H. “Kip” Kiplinger ’39, chairman emeritus of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and a giant in the fields of publishing, journalism, philanthropy and university leadership, died Nov. 20 in Rockville, Maryland.
Weill Cornell Medical College has received a $75 million gift from Sandra and Edward Meyer ‘48 and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Foundation to enhance the medical college’s cancer research and care programs.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its meeting in New York City on Jan. 30, approved a 1999-00 budget that calls for a 4.3 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an apple by another name could fetch a much sweeter price for farmers. Cornell research finds that consumers are willing to pay as much as 27 percent more for apples with names evocative of taste and sensation.