In the years since Einstein published his theory of general relativity -- in which he proposed that gravity, traditionally considered a force, is actually a manifestation of curved space and time -- the theory has been tested and…
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Cornell University-affiliated New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI) will receive $5 million through the 2006 New York state budget to continue producing significant impacts for New York farmers,…
While many final projects at Cornell this semester involve producing a research paper, students in Brenda Bricker's Leadership in the Nonprofit Environment (HumEc 407) class get to give away money.As part of the course, which…
On P.S. 84's rooftop in New York City, students tend an herb garden and share the harvest with school staff and others in their lunchroom. At an elementary school in Van Etten, N.Y., second-graders grow their own "vegetable soup"…
When people ask author and linguist Deborah Tannen, What is it about mothers and daughters and why do they have so many problems, especially since they are both women, the answer she gives them is, "Because they're both women."…
Some 500 Internet message boards are bringing together adolescents who injure themselves -- with cuts, carvings, scratches or burns. It is a world that is invisible to adults but of increasing importance to teenage social lives. …
Music Professor David Rosen, a noted Giuseppe Verdi expert who retires from Cornell at the end of this semester, will be honored by former students and past and current colleagues at an all-day symposium. The event, "The…
ProvidedTrenchmaster Vronwy Hankey and foreman Antonis Zidianakis excavate storage jars from the Minoan settlement Myrtos-Pyrgos. The jars were analyzed in the Cornell study using radiocarbon analyses.Separated in history by 100…
About 80 anxious callers a week contact Cornell's Lab of Ornithology with questions about avian influenza and the possibility of the virus arriving in the United States via migratory birds. A steady trickle of calls and e-mails…
The third campus forum on music downloading, like its two predecessors, produced no answers. But it just might have come a bit closer to defining the question -- perhaps because, for the first time, the panel included a student. …
America has a crisis on its hands, and that is its dependence on foreign oil, said U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd Dist.) speaking at Cornell on federal energy initiatives April 18. The talk, in a packed 401 Warren Hall, was…
Elizabeth Lamb has been named ornamental Integrated Pest Management (IPM) coordinator of the New York State IPM Program, which is part of Cornell Cooperative Extension. As former coordinator of the University of Florida's…
