NEW YORK -- To shut one's eyes was to be transported back to a dark table in a corner of the El Morocco nightclub during the late 1930s. The mournful yet soaring opening of "Rhapsody in Blue," played by jazz virtuoso Al Gallodoro…
What's the best way to get a statistically reliable sample of people who are hard to identify, such as illegal-drug users in large cities, itinerant jazz musicians, aging Manhattan artists and semi-professional storytellers? Answer: Use a new "pyramid" sampling method developed by a Cornell University sociologist. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use the method to recruit injection drug users (IDUs) and measure their HIV-risk behavior in the 25 U.S. cities with the largest number of AIDS cases. (November 19, 2004)
If an outbreak of a virulent strain of avian flu were to strike among a North American poultry farm, Cornell veterinarian Ben Lucio believes the virus can be contained in the chicken population.
A diverse roster of 10 notable poets and fiction writers will come to campus for the Creative Writing Program's Spring 2007 Reading Series, beginning Feb. 8. (Feb. 1, 2007)
At the stroke of year 2000, celebrants throughout the Northeast might be dreaming of a white New Year's Day. Likely their dreams will come true -- if they are in Caribou, Maine, the Finger Lakes region of New York, or Burlington, Vt., according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Cornell has granted temporary space for an Asian and Asian American center. The administration also has named Patricia Nguyen associate dean and center director, starting April 20. (March 5, 2009)
Jeffrey S. Lehman will be inaugurated as president of Cornell University in ceremonies on three Cornell campuses around the globe, Oct. 12-16. The events will feature remarks and lectures by the Sheikha of Qatar, national AIDS research leader Anthony Fauci, prize-winning architect Richard Meier and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "Cornell Celebrates a New Beginning" is the theme of the inauguration, in which Lehman, 47, will challenge higher education to provide fresh leadership in areas that are critical to the well-being of all humanity. (September 30, 2003)
Diana Daniels is a fly-fishing soccer mom as well as vice chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees and general counsel and secretary of the Washington Post Co.
New York, NY (September 21, 2004) -- As you read this, billions of synapses lying between the cells of your brain are using complex chemical signals to pass information from one neuron to the next.It's a process crucial to healthy brain function as well as drug development, drug addiction and neurological disease, and researchers at Yale University School of Medicine-Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College believe they now have a better understanding of how synaptic transmission works.