A $7.5 million grant to Cornell from Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation of Oxnard, Calif., will endow the newly established Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science, foundation and university officials announced.
Recent life-sciences research by Cornell University scientists and their students in Ithaca, N.Y., will be showcased April 12 at the Library of Congress (Thomas Jefferson Building, 1st Street SE), Washington, D.C. The scientific forum is titled "The Power and Promise of Life Sciences." (April 8, 2003)
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
Compared with their husbands, women tend to put less effort into planning for retirement, studies show. But lesbians tend to plan even less than other women, according to one of the first studies to look at the retirement plans of gay and lesbian couples.
Bottled water wastes energy and hurts the environment, asserts Cornell extension associate Jennifer Wilkins in this Cornell Perspectives opinion piece. (Aug. 22, 2007)
Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences has risen significantly in rankings by U.S. News and World Report in its "America's Best Graduate Schools 2007" annual report, released April 14.
The report placed Cornell…
Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences jumped from 14th in the nation to seventh in U.S. News and World Report's 'America's Best Graduate Schools 2007' annual report. (May 4, 2006)
NEW YORK (May 3, 2006) -- Breakthrough discoveries are pushing back the origins of Alzheimer's disease to an early breakdown in trafficking within brain cells, according to researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell…
Cornell will maintain its support for a program undertaken by member universities of the Fair Labor Association to involve locally-based organizations in monitoring working conditions in apparel factories in third-world countries. In making the announcement, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
Thanks to the early March nor'easter that has dumped more than 17 inches of snow on the city of salt, this has become the second snowiest season ever for Syracuse, N.Y. In fact, Syracuse is the snowiest city in the Northeast, according to climatologists at Northeast Regional Climate Center.