The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University has received a $3 million, six-year grant from the Park Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y., to initiate new biodiversity projects.
The Society for the Humanities has for more than four decades spearheaded propagation of new knowledge and introduced interdisciplinary approaches to study that have had lasting institutional consequences. (Feb. 8, 2008)
Nursing staff and family members of residents in nursing homes often distrust and misunderstand each other, feel powerless to improve communication and feel distressed by the situation, according to a Cornell study.
Regularly scheduled help sessions for such large, introductory science courses as biology, chemistry and physics ... free tutoring ... free workshops on how to improve study skills ... a van service for students with physical…
In a commentary published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, President David Skorton calls on the higher education community to help the country solves its most pressing challenges. (Nov. 21, 2008)
Cancer researchers at Cornell University have learned how some proteins receive the marching orders that dispatch them to initiate signaling pathways and produce malignant cell transformation.
In the year to come, a bevy of Cornell's best and brightest will study not high above Cayuga's waters, but along the Isis -- as the River Thames is known in Oxford, England. Just last December, three Cornell students won prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships for study in Oxford.
The John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell University has been awarded a $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to strengthen, broaden and extend the outreach of the program.
After a week of tense and intense judging in the 2005 Solar Decathlon solar-house design contest, the Cornell University team took second place to the University of Colorado in the final rankings.
Dr. Alfonso Torres, deputy administrator for veterinary services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, has been named director of the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory.