Biomedical engineer Jonathan Butcher is studying heart valve development from the very beginning of the process. He hopes that a greater understanding will lead to new treatments for valve disease. (March 12, 2009)
Rosemary Stasek '85, founder of a nonprofit that helps Afghan women, focused on activism as the keynote speaker March 8 at a campus celebration for International Women's Day. (March 10, 2009)
The $30,000 awards recognize outstanding tenured faculty members early in their careers for distinguished research and scholarly achievements, combined with their continuing commitment to Cornell.
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)
Astronomy professor Martha Haynes will lead the 10-member search committee, which will recommend, from within the Cornell community, a successor to Biddy Martin. Deputy Provost David Harris was named interim provost, effective Sept. 1. (June 18, 2008)
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.
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)