Cornell University News

Under their royal blue gowns, many of Bloomfield High School's graduating seniors went casual with high-top sneakers, sweater vests and sunglasses as they gathered at The Bushnell for commencement.

If NASA continues to be funded at its current levels, a manned mission to Mars could be permanently beyond reach, space industry experts say.

Laura Harper presents a donation of $100,000 to Southwest Public Libraries Board of Trustees President Lisa Leasure at the board's meeting June 11. The gift will be used for the Youth Services Department at the new Grove City Library.

The study, published June 9 in Nature Genetics , provides evidence for a 40-year-old hypothesis that regulation of genes must play an important role in evolution since there is little difference between humans and chimps in the proteins produced by genes.

Alan Draper grew up and went to school in New York City where he wasted his youth playing school yard basketball.

With thousands of newly-hatched 17-year cicadas blanketing the Eastern U.S., residents would be forgiven for not noticing a less conspicuous absence: birds.

When last we left the stand off between the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Daryl Issa, and the committee's senior Democratic Member, Elijah Cummings over the release of IRS Interview Transcripts, Issa had largely ignored Cummings request to begin to publicly release the full transcripts of recent interviews with IRS ... (more)

To improve how health care services are delivered in the county, Cayuga Medical Center has announced the expansion of its clinical integration effort.

The long-term partnership between Wegmans and the dairy specialists at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is expected to be outlined at 1 p.m. June 26 at Wegmans Pittsford store located south of Rochester.

Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine.

The Grateful Dead's May 8th, 1977, gig at Cornell University is widely considered the ne plus ultra of Dead bootlegs.

The options matrix tool is a spreadsheet-based decision making tool designed to help managers apply a set of decision criteria to a variety of alternatives or strategic options.

Cornell University researchers found that extroverts are more likely to associate the rush of the feel-good brain chemical dopamine with the environment they are in at the time, the New York Daily News reported.

Cornell has been honored as a Best Employer for seven of the last nine years. Forty-four percent of Cornell employees are age 50+, with an average tenure of 17.5 years.

Town of Ithaca resident Julie Swain wasn't bushwhacking through rugged terrain or lying in wait beneath a blind, but instead sitting in her living room when she spotted a black bear that was about 20 feet away.

Forget lab rats. Some researchers are now testing medicines on a silicon chip that could provide a better read on how a drug will work.

There's light at the end of the tunnel in Cascadilla Gorge. Most of the walking trail in the gorge from downtown to the heart of Collegetown has been closed for repairs since 2009 and was dealt a major setback in September 2011, when downpours from Tropical Storm Lee left many sections impassable and dangerous.

Pardis Pooshpas, 20, of Ithaca, was named American Red Cross volunteer of the month for June.

A Bold Approach to the Jobs Emergency brought together leading policymakers, thinkers, and activists to discuss how we can get the U.S. to full employment and create more good jobs, but that was only the beginning of the conversation.

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