Brightly glowing nanoparticles known as 'Cornell dots' are a safe, effective way to 'light up' cancerous tumors so surgeons can find and remove them. (Feb. 18, 2009)
Cornell senior Pisut Wisessing expresses the beauty and wonder of mathematical equations in a project he produced at Cornell for a film animation course. (Sept. 24, 2007)
A man with a severe head injury who spent more than five years in a minimally conscious state is now communicating and recovering his ability to move after his brain was stimulated with pulses of electric current. (Sept. 13, 2007)
The Cornell Center for Materials Research is administering a new $2.9 million Cornell graduate student training program, funded by the NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program. (Sept. 11, 2007)
Mann Library is on the verge of selling its 100th Library in a Box, formally called The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. The equivalent of an entire room's worth of print journals all compressed onto CDs provides some 2.2 million pages of academic articles to 100 institutions in 50 developing countries, from Vietnam, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Senegal, Ethiopia and Malawi to Honduras, Bolivia and Peru.
Amid the challenges of shifting to virtual learning, students and faculty found opportunities for innovation, connection and intellectual growth. Here are snapshots of six courses that took creative approaches to their online formats.
Professor Morten Christiansen challenges the long-held theory that human language stems from a genetic blueprint. Instead, he says, the neural machinery used for language likely predates the emergence of language itself. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Tracy Mitrano calls on the government to create a regulatory federal agency devoted to issues surrounding the Internet so that we can more readily create a prosperous global information economy. (Jan. 16, 2009)
Beef Field Day will be held Saturday, July 22, on the Cornell campus at Morrison Hall from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Cornell Department of Animal Science and the New York Beef Producers Association.
How safe is New York state according to the people who live here? What do New Yorkers believe are the most pressing problems facing the state today? And how does the state stack up as a place to find good jobs with benefits and room for advancement? The answers to those and a range of other questions can make an enormous difference in everything from state policies to federal grants. But while many other states have long had reliable, nonpartisan annual survey data on their residents, New York state hasn't until now. This June the results of the first ever Cornell Empire State Poll will be released. The new poll is a joint initiative between the Survey Research Institute (SRI) at Cornell University and Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, with assistance from the Department of Communication and other research departments. (April 30, 2003)