Many of the Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
A formal ceremony to reaffirm the long-standing partnership between Cornell and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) will be held at the Indian Village on the New York State Fair grounds on Indian Day, Friday, Aug. 29.
The New York State Agricultural Society wanted a new exhibit for its agricultural museum at the New York State Fair and Cornell student Jennifer Edwards turned it into something everybody kneads.
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1997 United Way campaign on and off campus this fall. Their efforts, which started a few months ago, are aimed at raising $1.46 million.
"Duality and Unification" will be the topic for mathematical physicist Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies when he delivers a special Gemant Lecture on Monday, Sept. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall'
With a burgeoning world population and fewer places to grow food, Cornell scientists have begun to locate high-production genes from wild plants to put into domesticated, edible crop plants.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The northward spread of raccoon rabies can be halted by vaccination barrier zones, veterinarians and wildlife biologists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are predicting. A preliminary assessment of vaccine trials in New York, Vermont and Ohio, where oral vaccines are dropped from aircraft into raccoon rabies-free areas, points to the barrier zone strategy as the most promising way to prevent further spread of the disease, the Cornell experts say. But the vaccination barrier should be extended across northern New Hampshire and Maine, they recommend, before treating East Coast states that already are infected with wildlife rabies.
Debra Castillo, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature, has been appointed to a three-year term as director of Cornell's Latin American Studies Program.
Robert Jarrow, Cornell professor of finance, economics and investment management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named the IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year by the International Association of Financial Engineers.
For months the growers have listened carefully to the agricultural advice of the Cornell Cooperative Extension agents. Now, it is harvest time at one of New York City's most-advanced farms: the hydroponic rooftop garden of the High School for Environmental Studies on West 56th Street.
Ten plant-related topics, from the natural history of Henry Thoreau to the search for new jungle medicine, are scheduled in the Cornell Plantations Fall 1997 Lecture Series, beginning Sept. 18.
Although numerous programs try to help children recognize and deal with verbal and physical aggression, one Cornell University program has been shown to significantly reduce children's aggressive behavior.
