When a serious illness strikes, people often ask why there is no effective drug to treat it. What they don't know, says Cornell University Professor Bruce Ganem, is that while important new biotechnology drugs, particularly in the field of genomics, are emerging every day, investors often lack the tools to evaluate them as startup business ventures.
Events on campus this week include: the Jazz Festival, the Runway Show, readings at the Cornell Store and Mann Library, a film festival, emerging artist concert and IT open forum. (April 14, 2011)
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.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced that two distinguished vice provosts who inaugurated their positions will be stepping down and returning to the faculty, making way for two accomplished faculty members to step into those vice provost positions, effective July 1.
On April 14, Armstrong, a former Catholic nun who has written numerous books on religion, presented this year's Frederick C. Wood Lecture in Sage Chapel as part of the 75th anniversary of Cornell United Religious Work.
A group of experts on peer-to-peer file sharing managed to agree on one thing last night: that having people obtain intellectual property without compensating the creators is not a good thing.
Cell membranes -- the sacs encompassing the body's living matter -- can assume a variety of shapes as they morph to engulf materials, expel others and assemble themselves into tissues. In the past it was possible for theoreticians only to analyze the thermodynamic forces behind membrane shape-shifting. But now a team of biophysicists from Cornell University, the National Institutes of Health and the W.M. Keck Foundation has been able to watch the sacs, or vesicles, reshaping themselves under the light of multiphoton three-dimensional microscopy. The forces behind the membrane morphing, the researchers say, is akin to a party entertainer shaping balloon animals by tensioning the surfaces. (October 21, 2003)
Plans for Duffield Hall, a new research center facility aimed at keeping Cornell a leader in nanotechnology, have been submitted to the city of Ithaca, beginning the environmental and site-plan review processes.
ITHACA, N.Y. ---- The Cornell University Board of Trustees today (Jan. 26) approved a recommendation to place the proposed $110 million Life Sciences Technology facility on the west end of Alumni Field, on the university's central campus. The action by the board was taken subsequent to the prior approval of the proposed site by the board's Buildings and Properties Committee at its meeting Jan. 24. The committee added an amendment that requested the university administration to develop both short-term and long-term plans for athletic facilities and to replace two varsity practice fields lost to the construction with two new practice fields of superior quality. When the project is completed, one practice field on Alumni Field will be restored to athletics, with a net increase in the number of practice fields from two to three. (January 28, 2002)
Peter Krebs no longer has to wait in line for his favorite Cornell Bear Deal combo meal. Frustrated by long lines at campus cafeterias, he has found a better way: Ordering online. The idea came to him on a cold February evening in 2000. At the time Krebs was a junior living on North Campus and fed up with waiting for an hour for dinner, only to find the counter window closing for the day. Instead of calling up for pizza, Krebs took his gripes to then-Cornell Dining Director Nadeem Siddiqui, who encouraged Krebs to find a solution. Two years later Krebs, C.E. '01, M.Eng. '02, and his four partners developed and successfully demonstrated their prototype, which they trademarked as Webfood. (March 24, 2005)