Editors' picks for events the week of Oct. 3 range from a performance by West African singers and dancers to a self-guided tour of eco-friendly houses. (Oct. 3, 2008)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service has awarded a Cornell entomologist a $50,000 grant to help eradicate the Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis).
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
The Cornell University Council has been reviewing several new initiatives, including the possibility that prospective freshmen will be able to apply to both a primary and an alternate college at Cornell, beginning in the fall of 2007.
The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Scarcely a week later, 575 Cornell male undergraduates registered for military service, the university began a flight ground school soon after and women played lead roles in the war effort.
Weill Cornell has partnered with the Touch Foundation and Sanford Weill to train doctors in Tanzania in an effort to alleviate the health-care crisis gripping that country. (Jan. 25, 2008)
A certain combination of AIDS drugs is superior to others when it comes to the initial treatment of HIV patients, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
NEW YORK (July 24, 2006) -- A purified mixture of human antibodies called intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) provides lasting benefits to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to researchers at the NewYork-Presbyterian…
Cornell's American Indian Program is offering its students a chance to participate in an upcoming United Nations forum on indigenous issues. The program also has strengthened support for students and scholars. (March 25, 2009)
Exploit opportunities and dress for the job you want were among the tips alumni offered to 18 students who took part in a three-day field trip for seniors in the Department of Communication. (March 26, 2007)