A brand-new vending machine just for Cornell-grown apples has been installed in the Plant Science Building, home to the Department of Horticulture, following the early retirement last year of an aging machine. (Sept. 20, 2007)
An exhibition, 'Lafayette: Citizen of Two Worlds,' which draws on the 11,000-item Lafayette collection housed in Kroch Library, opens Sept. 25. (Sept. 20, 2007)
History professor Steven Kaplan discusses the importance of the Marquis de Lafayette to America and the Cornell University Library collection of Lafayette's papers, the largest collection outside France. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Peggy Mamet '59 is active in the Hermione-Lafayette Association, which is fundraising to build a life-size replica of the Marquis de Lafayette's 18th-century fighting frigate. (Sept. 20, 2007)
It pays to remember that Cornell is composed of thousands of individuals, all of them pursuing a dream. Three of them tell their stories on the Far Above ... The Campaign for Cornell Web site. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Cornell's first president, Andrew D. White, and his successors, saw medicine as a crucial university offering, and courses in the medical sciences were first offered in 1878. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Speaking to a capacity crowd Sept. 18 in Sage Chapel, Angela Davis explained that imprisonment provides a negative definition of American freedom and democracy, and is a system that only hurts society. (Sept. 19, 2007)
In an effort to translate medical research into practical and accessible treatment, Weill Cornell Medical College will lead a new Clinical and Translational Science Center funded through a $49 million award from the National Institutes of Health. (Sept. 19, 2007)
Cornell researchers and Sathguru Management Consultants have led an international consortium through the first phase of developing a pest-resistant eggplant, which is expected to be the first genetically engineered food crop in South Asia. (Sept. 19, 2007)
India's manufacturing and service sectors are experiencing very high growth rates, but agriculture is stagnating, said C. Ramasamy, vice chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, while visiting campus Sept. 13. (Sept. 19, 2007)
In a new venture in Africa, Cornell will support a new doctoral program at the University of Ghana to train African plant breeders to tackle issues related to crops vital to Africans' diet. (Sept. 19, 2007)
