The supplemental environmental impact statement for the College of Veterinary Medicine's proposed Waste Management Facility will be discussed at a public information meeting Wednesday, Jan. 28, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library.
A Cornell professor will share in a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a significant advance in the realism of computer graphics and animation.
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell, is one of two scientists to share the prestigious 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for his "innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple."
Collective memory is a fabric that fades without use. So when Kenneth Clarke discovered Martin Luther King Jr.'s name in a Cornell Sage Chapel ledger of past guest speakers, it was news to him. As it turns out, it's news to many people at Cornell and the greater Ithaca area.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2004 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 22 through 24. The full board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23.
During the most recent early afternoon on Mars, the temperature at the rover Spirit landing site in Gusev crater was an admittedly chilly minus 11 degrees Celsius (12 degrees Fahrenheit).
Consuming farm-raised salmon may pose a greater health risk than eating salmon caught in the wild, according to a group of scientists who published their research Jan. 9 in the journal Science.
The world too small to see is revealed in a traveling science museum exhibition, 'It's a Nano World,' which is on view at Innoventions at Epcot in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., through March 1.
Cornell University is offering a hands-on, distance education course, "The How, When and Why of Grafting for Gardeners," which will teach universal criteria for grafting and techniques such as chip budding, T-budding and top-wedge grafting.
To inspire and inform youth workers and others interested in cultivating environments that promote positive youth development and behavior, two experts from Cornell University have published a book that summarizes current theory, research and practice in the field.
'Garden of Lights,' a design by a team that included Cornell University undergraduate Sean Corriel, was one of three finalists in the competition for a memorial at the site of the former World Trade Center.
For men who suffer from enlargement of the prostate, combining two classes of drugs reduces the risk of significant worsening of symptoms and other BPH complications by 66 percent, according to a multi-center study authored by a physician-scientist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
