Laurance and Nancy Fuller are issuing an implicit challenge to others to support Cornell. They have made a multimillion-dollar lead gift to the university to name the H. Laurance and Nancy L. Fuller Learning Center.
Thirteen students and two faculty members from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design traveled to India Jan. 2-16 in a class trip to visit textile and apparel production centers.
The incidence of metastatic prostate cancer in older men is rising after reaching an all-time low in 2011. The findings suggest a correlation between the increase and a change in prostate cancer screening guidelines recommending against routine PSA testing.
Thanks to a grant from the Center for Life Science Enterprise, 18 students served as summer interns through Entrepreneurship@Cornell, working at startup companies throughout New York state.
Bad Religion punk rocker Greg Graffin, Ph.D. '03, is co-teaching a course on evolution this semester for non-biology majors; he will do so for at least three years. (Nov. 30, 2011)
Cornell researchers have identified a type of immune system cell that prevents a patient’s body from attacking donor cells after a bone marrow transplant.
Michael I. Kotlikoff, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, has been named dean of the veterinary college, effective July 1. (April 26, 2007)
While some cities in the Northeast endured dry spells, nine cities broke their records for rain in April and May, reports Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center. (June 3, 2011)
Eric Tan '14, a student in the College of Engineering, was the winner of the eighth annual Cornell Concerto competition, held Dec. 11 in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
The northeastern United States enjoyed its warmest March in 118 years, beating out the previous warm-winter record set in 1945, according to Cornell Northeast Regional Climate Center. (April 13, 2012)