The outcome of Nicaragua's Nov. 5 elections will have far-reaching international political and economic ripples, according to Jose Luis Velazquez Pereira, who spoke at Cornell Oct. 12.
Many hands are stitching together a project that gives a compact fluorescent light bulb and reusable tote bag to the 1,400 households in Caroline, N.Y., thanks to a bright idea promoted by Shawn Lindabury '09. (March 25, 2008)
Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer - particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer, according to a new Cornell study. (Nov. 11, 2008)
Graduate student Leif Ristroph found that two or more flexible objects in a flow - flags flapping in the wind, for example - experience drag very differently from rigid objects in a similar flow. (Nov. 6, 2008)
Undergraduate and graduate students gathered on the Arts Quad in full regalia to celebrate Cornell's 145th Commencement with friends and family May 26.
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, is the winner of the prestigious 2005 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. The $30,000 prize is the world's largest in the field of plant molecular biology. The prize, awarded by the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB), is for Tanksley's pioneering work in genome mapping, comparative genomics and marker-assisted breeding of crop plants. (January 24, 2005)
Who wants to be a millionaire? Cornell junior Natalie Gulyas does. Gulyas, gets her turn to phone a friend, poll the audience and request a 50-50. She will face TV host Meredith Viera while sitting on the hot seat of the television quiz show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish a national gene data research center, the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, at Cornell. Judy St. John, an associate deputy administrator with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, made the announcement Jan. 17 in San Diego at the Plant and Animal Genome VII Conference.
To ease the pain of recovery following prostate cancer surgery, researchers have developed an innovative and patient-friendly approach that eliminates the use of a catheter. (Oct. 29, 2008)
Close to 150 faculty, staff and students attended the June 26 opening of the East Campus Research Facility, which promises to increase the quality of live-animal research done at Cornell across various life science disciplines. (June 27, 2007)