As the world population passes the 6 billion mark, pioneering work to guarantee food sustainability continues at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. the largest not-for-profit organization dedicated to plant research in the world, celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Lisa Staiano-Coico, executive director of the Tri-Institutional Research Program (TIRP) and vice provost for medical affairs at Cornell University, has been selected as dean of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell. Since 2003, Staiano-Coico's work as executive director of the New York-based TIRP has put her at the helm of an alliance encompassing New York City's Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as Cornell's main campus in Ithaca. Established in 2000 with a $160 million gift, TIRP's collaborative research is focused in three areas -- chemical biology, computational biology, and cancer and developmental biology -- with tri-institutional graduate training programs offered in chemical biology, computational biology and medicine. (May 06, 2004)
Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality - females judge males by their looks: the reddish color of the males' breast and belly feathers.
Eleven outstanding students in the Class of 2008 at Cornell's Middle East outpost in Doha, Qatar, were selected to spend the summer in New York City for the first annual eight-week Summer Research Fellowship Program.
Many Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today (Sept. 20) named Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, among the 25 new MacArthur Fellows - the so-called "Genius Awards" - for 2005. He will receive $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years.
Who is the rightful parent of a test-tube baby? How should a physician honor a patient's right to die? Does the use of stem cells from human embryos in life-saving research violate a congressional ban? Should there be such a ban?
John L. Ford has been reappointed as the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students at Cornell, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced Wednesday.
Twenty-six black and Hispanic high school students from Washington, D.C., will learn that a university education is within their reach when they are hosted by Cornell University urban planning students and professors this Aug. 9-13.