The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University will hold its annual Labor Day celebration Thursday, Aug. 28, at noon in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building.
Native Americas journal, the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Educational Foundation of America.
Growers know that after years of driving heavy farm equipment over wet soil during the planting or harvest seasons, the soil gets compacted. In compacted soil, crops have difficulty growing.
Fusarium head blight, a plant disease also known as wheat scab, has taken aim at America's breadbasket and threatens New York's $30 million wheat-growing industry, according to Cornell plant pathologists.
If the Presidential Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels has its way, consumers soon will have much more access to scientific information about the benefits and need for dietary supplements, which include vitamins, minerals and a vast array of botanical products.
Cornell editors and writers received five national awards this year from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), which recognizes excellence in programs and publications in development, alumni relations, communications and public affairs.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, with funding from the city of Ithaca, provided free bus service between downtown and Ithaca College on the evening of July 3 for the community fireworks display, and almost 1,500 passenger-trips kept the buses busy, transporting 750 people to and from the show.
In early June, Tompkins County Area Transit introduced the Summer Fun Pass. The pass, for youths ages 6 to 18, is valid on any Tompkins County Area Transit bus in Tompkins County this summer, through Aug. 31.
The world's smallest guitar — carved out of crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell — has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.
Cornell has been recognized by a national awards program for an online version of Books in Print developed by Campus Store employees. The Higher Education Awards Program, sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and University Business Officers and Barnes & Noble College Bookstores.
Elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere benefit some plants by making them more tolerant to cold temperatures, Cornell researchers have discovered.
Native Americas, a journal published by Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, shared the top honor -- General Excellence -- with Tribal Colleges magazine in the Native American Journalists Association's annual awards, presented in Minneapolis June 20.
