Two organizations have honored Cornell's Utilities Department for its energy technology and efficiency in supplying heating and cooling to a university community of nearly 30,000 people using environmentally sound methods.
On the evening of Feb. 21, internationally renowned musician Yair Dalal will return to Ithaca for a performance of his unique style of Middle Eastern music.
New York Gov. George E. Pataki has announced that Cornell's proposed genomics technologies research center will be designated as a Strategically Targeted Academic Research center.
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.
What Peter Meinig called 'truly an auspicious day for Cornell,' interim President Hunter R. Rawlings called 'a very sad day in Iowa City, Iowa.' The day was Saturday, and the man Rawlings was referring to was Cornell's newly named 12th president, David Skorton.
Two European video and digital art experts will deliver guest lectures on the Cornell Oct. 2 and 3 in conjunction with the new Cornell Graduate Program in Film and Video Studies.
March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Former congressmen Thomas Downey and Rod Chandler will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace in Washington, D.C. April 18. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies.
In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at Weill Medical College of Cornell University believe they have pinpointed the mechanism that triggers relapse in patients with deadly multiple myeloma.While available drugs can push the disease into temporary remission, fatal, uncontrolled cell division always re-emerges over time. Until now, the cellular mechanism driving this relapse has remained unclear. (December 23, 2005)
By tweaking a gene in the mouse genome, scientists are creating animal models of Huntington's disease that mimic human Huntington's and may lead to effective treatments for this killer illness.