Headline-grabbing die-offs of sea life could be just the tip of the iceberg as global warming and pollution allow old diseases to find new hosts, 13 biologists predict in this week's issue (Sept. 3, 1999) of the journal Science.
As more researchers are publishing their findings in electronic journals, libraries today are faced with the complex question of how to archive and preserve that digital literature for future generations. To begin addressing this issue, the National Science Foundation recently awarded Cornell Library a $450,000 grant to create a system for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital mathematics and statistics journals.
Jennie Tiffany Towle Farley, a champion of women's rights and Cornell University professor of industrial and labor relations, co-founder of Cornell's Women's Studies Program and a former member of the university's Board of Trustees, died June 19 in Hudson, N.Y., after a long illness. She was 69.
The Materials Science Center (MSC) at Cornell University has received funding for another five years, topping the list of institutions that were funded by the National Science Foundation as centers of materials research.
Persons seeking to recover damages from people or corporations who injure them will soon be out of luck -- and money, a law professor from Cornell will warn a conference of bankruptcy judges and lawyers in San Diego on Friday (Oct. 18).
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell, is one of two scientists to share the prestigious 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for his "innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple."
New York, NY -- Two physician-scientists from New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College were co-authors of a new study which demonstrates that earlier laser treatment for certain premature infants resulted in an overall better vision outcome. Results of the multi-center clinical trial, sponsored by the national eye institute (nei), a part of the national institutes of health (NIH), and published in the December issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology, give physicians new, improved treatment options for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a blinding disease that affects premature, low-birth-weight infants and is a leading cause of vision loss in children. (January 5, 2004)
The walls are up, the roof is on and the summer crew of Cornell's Solar Decathlon Team is working hard to finish its fully functional, self-sufficient, solar-powered house. Scheduled for completion by the end of June, the only solar-powered house from an Ivy League school to enter the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) international Solar Decathlon competition will be moved to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in time for the Oct. 7 to 16 competition.
To understand the collision of continents and to better monitor the birth of earthquakes, Cornell geologists have been awarded a $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation.