The following are quotations from an address by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Cornell's Senior Convocation, held from noon to 1 p.m. on May 25 in Barton Hall.
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.
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.
With more campus consultation ahead, three groups of distinguished faculty members have been working since early this year to develop action plans addressing three challenges offering opportunities for Cornell to establish leadership.
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.
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.
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.
To offer a healthful alternative to the 1992 U.S. Food Guide Pyramid, Cornell University and Harvard University researchers have teamed up with other experts in unveiling an official Vegetarian Diet Pyramid. (Jan. 7, 1998)
Researchers are reporting the development of a framework reference map of the canine genome. The article appears in today's issue of Genomics, published by the Academic Press.
Some 80 percent of older moms admit they have a favorite among their grown children, according to a new Cornell University/Louisiana State University pilot study, and about 80 percent of children said they always knew it. But when asked which kid was mom's favorite, most adult children get it wrong.