Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, associate professor of anthropology and of Latino studies, has been appointed the new director of Cornell's Latino Studies Program (LSP). She succeeds Mary Pat Brady, associate professor of English.
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Over spring break, three Cornell students and Dean of Students Kent Hubbell visited Qatar to see how undergraduates in Ithaca can collaborate with their premedical counterparts in Doha as part of the Ithaca-Qatar Ambassadors.
Cornell University Librarian Sarah E. Thomas has announced the appointment of Katherine Reagan as curator of rare books in Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC).
In 'Law and Order: Elizabethan Unit' Sept. 20, real actors and real attorneys played parts in the trial of King Lear v. Goneril and Regan, part of Weill Cornell's Humanities and Medicine Series.
Kate Light, 2004 visiting writer in the Cornell University Department of English, will give a poetry reading Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 3330 Carol Tatkon Center on North Campus. The reading is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Light is the author of The Laws of Falling Bodies, winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press, Open Slowly (Zoo Press, 2003) and Oceanophony, a full-length concert collaboration with composer Bruce Adolphe. (March 5, 2004)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Feb. 14) announced that Cornell has joined with four other leading private universities in submitting an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School.
NEW YORK (May 23, 2005) -- A biochemical partnership between two novel compounds called cell-cycle inhibitors is crucial to the development of blood vessels that help tumors survive and thrive, according to a collaborative Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.When researchers transplanted tumors into mice genetically engineered to lack two of these inhibitors, those tumors failed to develop much-needed vasculature -- a process called angiogenesis.
Cities throughout the Northeast have enjoyed one of the coolest Julys on record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. New York City never saw an official high temperature in July above 89 degrees at Central Park – for the entire month – the first time that has happened in 107 years.
Close to 150 faculty, staff and students attended the June 26 opening of the East Campus Research Facility, which promises to increase the quality of live-animal research done at Cornell across various life science disciplines. (June 27, 2007)