Bruce Wallace, professor emeritus of genetics, died Jan. 12 in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the age of 94 from a stroke-related illness. Wallace taught at Cornell from 1958 to 1981.
Adipose-derived stem cells often used in reconstructive surgeries including mastectomies can create a microenvironment suitable for more tumors to grow, researchers report.
Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has received a 2014 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, for a portfolio of her work.
Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, chairman emeritus of India’s Tata Group, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering as a foreign associate last week during the NAE annual meeting.
A group led by physics professors Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen has made nanometer-scale machines from graphene and glass, which could be used for sensing, interfacing with electronics and more.
Assistant professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been named a finalist for a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, for her National Book Award-nominated poetry collection 'Open Interval.' (Feb. 26, 2010)
Physicists including Cornell's Edwin Salpeter and Kurt Gottfried sent a letter to Congress last week urging measures to restrict the use of nuclear weapons by the United States. (Feb. 13, 2007)
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning shows the Tata Nano's affordable design achievement, and the car's potential social and environmental effects, in a new Johnson Museum exhibition. (Jan. 25, 2011)