A collaborative venture among Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College, the Downtown Ithaca Incubator was launched Jan. 16 at its home in the Carey Building on East State Street.
A new grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support three nutrition graduate students to focus on obesity, taking an ecological perspective. (Oct. 22, 2008)
Cornell is the only institution in the country that offers a new test for salmonella dublin, which can affect cattle and endangers humans. (Oct. 31, 2012)
A team of Cornell scientists has discovered that intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease may be associated with a novel group of E. coli bacteria with genes similar to bacteria that cause diseases ranging from salmonella to cholera and even bubonic plague. (Aug. 10, 2007)
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Laura Brown has announced that faculty members Kora Bättig von Wittelsbach, Antonio DiTommaso, Michel Louge and Mark Wysocki have been chosen for the 2011 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial…
Five fellows pursuing master's degrees in public administration recently spent a week in Uganda helping young mothers abused by soldiers led by fugitive rebel commander Joseph Kony.
Cornell researchers have shed new light on a lightning-quick, impossibly small-scale process, called exocytosis, by casting sharp focus on what happens right at the moment the 'doors' on the cell wall open. (Oct. 13, 2010)
A dieter's decision to eat or not is often determined by powerful environmental cues that he or she is probably not even aware of. But daily weighing can help, reports a new Cornell study. (Nov. 16, 2011)