Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue.
Jason Kats '10 gave his friend, Sam Scott '10, an unusual wedding gift: He endowed the first fund ever in the American Indian Program in honor of Scott and his bride. (Dec. 6, 2012)
Cornell University's undergraduate business program in the Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) was accredited Jan. 9 by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The course becomes only the second general undergraduate business program in the Ivy League, after the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to earn accreditation. AEM is a department within Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Accreditation provides recognition of the content and quality of its business program. The designation means that a peer group of scholars has examined the undergraduate business program in AEM and has approved it. (January 18, 2002)
Events on campus this week include a book talk on the American Dream, 150 bugs at Insectapalooza, The Big Draw at the Johnson Museum, a classic horror film in Sage Chapel and Halloween treats.
The $25.2 million Next Generation Cassava Breeding project at Cornell has released a database that features all the breeding data on cassava for open access data sharing.
Los Angeles artist Jessica Rath worked with Professor Susan Brown to use Cornell apple trees as a basis for a photography exhibit in Pasadena next year. (June 16, 2011)
Graduate programs in computer science, chemistry, engineering and physics are among the nation's top 10, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2011 rankings. (April 15, 2010)
Cornell and the City University of Hong Kong have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish terms of a collaboration to create the first veterinary medicine academic program in Hong Kong. (April 15, 2010)
N.Y. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli kicked off a workshop of the Local Government Leadership Institute on campus, Aug. 13, aimed at helping local governments deliver services at a lower cost to their constituents. (Aug. 18, 2009)
David B. Stern, a molecular biologist who studies photosynthesis and the molecular genetics of intracellular communication in plants, has been named president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc.