Cornell Professor Chen Jian won the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Documentary Research for the film 'Declassifed: Nixon in China.'
Last summer two Cornell students and one alumna lived alongside locals in rural and urban communities in Kenya, engaging them to generate ideas for sustainable micro-enterprises that may lift them out of poverty.
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell placed ninth in a ranking that looked at how well the world's 600 full-time MBA programs integrate social and environmental knowledge in their courses and programs.
To determine the best management practices to reduce the impact of phosphorus in the Cannonsville watershed, two Cornell professors have received a $1 million grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Harvey Reissig has been named director of the Pesticide Management Education Program and state pesticide coordinator for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Sir Quett Ketumile Masire, former president of Botswana, will visit campus Oct. 31 and give an evening address. Masire's talk, at 6:30 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building conference hall.
The most detailed analysis to date of how humans differ from one another at the DNA level shows strong evidence that natural selection has shaped the recent evolution of our species, according to researchers from Cornell University, Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics.
A diverse group of 120 Cornell students visited UN headquarters in New York City on Sept. 30, some of them international by citizenship, others by birth and yet others by academic interests.
A common soil bacteria can 'smell' a wound on plants like roses and wine grapevines, which triggers the microbes to copy their DNA many times over and insert them into plant cells, causing tumors associated with crown gall disease, according to new research.
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the winners for three awards: 2005-06 Edward R. Murray Scholarship, Undergraduate Student Artist Award and Distinguished Alumni Award.