Cornell University appointed the principal officers for eCornell, the university's new distance learning subsidiary, according to an announcement by Peter C. Meinig, chairman of the board of directors of eCornell.
The discussions about race, ethnicity, religion and sexuality are tough, really tough for the students in the College of Human Ecology's Urban Semester program. Small wonder.
Consider that the undergraduates in Urban Semester are…
The drought that devastated agriculture in the northeastern United States was the most significant of 9 major weather events in the region last year, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell.
NEW YORK (March 16, 2005) -- Two compounds that zero in on cancer cells spreading throughout the body, while ignoring primary tumor cells, could someday give doctors a whole new weapon in the fight against tough-to-treat metastatic disease, according to Weill Medical College of Cornell University researchers.The compounds, called synthetic migrastatin analogues, prevented 91 to 99 percent of metastatic breast cancer cells in mice, and are the first to target only metastatic cells.
Judith Surkis, a graduate student in the Department of History at Cornell, has received a Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most respected academic honorary society.
Events on campus this week include a poetry reading by Julia Alvarez, the Johnson Museum's Tarjama/Translation exhibit, Cornell Campus Club coffee hour and flood relief in Pakistan and India. (Sept. 2, 2010)
Five individuals who have dedicated their lives to feeding and housing the homeless will participate in a lecture series this spring at Cornell. The lecture series is part of Cornell's Housing and Feeding the Homeless Program, which began in 1988.
The discovery by a Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College scientist that poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) plays a pivotal role in gene transcription could open doors to new therapies for cancer and neurological disease, and even hints at connections between the foods we eat and gene expression within our cells.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and CEO of General Electric Co., the world's most profitable industrial company, will give the 2004 Hatfield address, April 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. There will be overflow seating, and closed-circuit television viewing of the talk, in PepsiCo Auditorium, 305 Ives Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. (April 8, 2004)
Donald P. Gregg, U.S. ambassador to Korea (1989-93) during the George H.W. Bush administration and chairman of the Korea Society, will deliver the 2004 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell.