According to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine, pre-existing lung inflammation may increase the risk that cancers beginning elsewhere will spread to that organ, suggesting new therapies.
Diversity officers from campuses across the country attended a three-day workshop on how faculty can incorporate diversity into their classrooms. The Faculty Diversity Institute has become well-known for its innovative approach.
Evan D. Wade, 23, a senior in the College of Engineering and a member of Navy ROTC, was fatally injured Oct. 25 in a motor vehicle accident. The Tompkins County Sheriff's Office is investigating the accident. (Oct. 26, 2008)
The Faculty Award Program is a worldwide competition intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities and those in IBM research, development and service organizations. (Aug. 26, 2009)
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s New York City program has moved into a new space in the Standard Oil Building, a historic landmark overlooking lower Manhattan.
The Research Navigator Initiative workshop brought together faculty with extension educators to talk about new ways to perform and use research June 25-26.
Cornell trustee Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 fulfilled a lifelong dream in December with a year-end gift to Cornell’s Department of Economics to establish the Zubrow Professorship of Economics.
Jeremy Handrup and Erin Ferro-Murray, students in the course Parasites! The Art and Media of Imposition, devised art projects that explore the notion of parasites in different settings.
Very few successful people would have succeeded if they hadn't been lucky, too, economist Robert H. Frank says in his book, "Success and Luck." He calls on policymakers to create the conditions that put luck on everyone's side.