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Cornell changes financial aid policy to enhance affordability

Cornell, in another effort to help ensure that it remains affordable for the nation's top students, today (Jan. 25, 1999) announced that beginning in fall 1999, students will be able to use the full amount of any outside scholarships to reduce the amount they would otherwise borrow.

Alien animals, plants and microbes cost U.S. $123 billion a year, Cornell ecologists report

A few bad actors among the more than 30,000 non-indigenous species in the United States cost $123 billion a year in economic losses, Cornell University ecologists estimate. "It doesn't take many trouble-makers to cause tremendous damage," Cornell ecologist David Pimentel.

Small family farms compete better when using 'new agriculture' marketing techniques, says Cornell researcher

Fourth generation peanut farmer Luke Green of Banks, Ala., produces organically grown peanuts, markets them in his peanut butter -- Luke's Pure Peanuts -- and his small family farm thrives economically when others around him are closing.

Genes that greatly boost rice yields on world's poorest farms are identified by Cornell researchers

Thanks to a technique known as genetic mapping, Cornell scientists have for the first time located genetic factors that allow significant increases in yields of rice grown by poor farmers trying to produce crops in hardscrabble conditions.

'The Body Project' by Joan Jacobs Brumberg wins national award

'The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls' (1997) by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of human development and women's studies at Cornell, has been chosen one of 'Choice's' Outstanding Academic Books.

Cornell announces recruitment initiative aimed at enhancing student diversity

Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has approved an assertive $100,000 initiative aimed at enhancing the diversity of the student community by improving the recruitment of underrepresented minority students, university officials have announced.

Emerging science of 'behavioral economics' explains dumb money decisions, Cornell psychologist says

The science of economics explains how money behaves (as if rational people were handling it) but not the details of how people behave around money (sometimes unwisely). That's why we need the emerging science called behavioral economics, says

Paula Poundstone show is rescheduled for Feb. 7

Comedienne Paula Poundstone has rescheduled her show at Cornell for Sunday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Tickets for the original, cancelled show of Dec. 7, 1998, will be honored for the Feb. 7 event.

Tcat to hold public meetings on new fare structure

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) is holding a series of public meetings to present fare structure recommendations that are scheduled to go into effect by the end of this summer.

Coral bleaching and death could be early warning of environmental change, Cornell ecologists warn

The dying corals of the Florida Keys could be an early warning of tough times ahead for the planet's environment, Cornell ecologists worry.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the land under your feet is in new online databases from Cornell's Mann Library

Want to know the slope of that hill on the north forty? Or the soil conditions there? What about the stream that flows through the middle -- how much water flows and what's its chemical composition?

Renowned writer, actor and comedian John Cleese is at Cornell Feb. 4-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large

It may sound funny, but it's true. John Cleese, British writer-comedian-actor and former rector of St. Andrews University in Scotland, will make two public appearances as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large during his first official visit to the Cornell.