Greta M. Colavito, a resident of Ithaca, is the first recipient of the Bettie Brooks-Greta Colavito Award for Distinguished Service at the Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research, Inc.
In a joint ceremony Nov. 3, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) will commemorate the engineering and scientific contributions of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
The biology of tumor growth has long been a mystery. While it has been known that tumors recruit cells to form new blood vessels -- a process called angiogenesis -- and that growth factors are necessary to promote this, the origin of the cells that form the early, new blood vessels has been poorly understood.
The energy that powers the sun would seem to have little in common with the hair on the tip of a housefly's wing. But in a Cornell University lab, the two have found a curious unison.
To help show young students how vegetables get from the field to the kitchen, Cornell's Kids Growing Food program is now accepting grant applications from elementary and secondary schoolteachers in New York state and several middle Atlantic states.
To celebrate the diverse history of the Southside neighborhood of Ithaca, the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership (C-IP) will sponsor a free exhibit and public reading from a new play as part of its neighborhood history initiative.
From a seaweed extract called alginate to the element calcium, learn how chemistry affects our everyday lives. Both materials will be among the host of subjects available for explanation and demonstration at the annual Chemistry Fair, in celebration of National Chemistry Week.
President Hunter Rawlings has joined the board of governors of Partnership for Public Service, a new nonpartisan organization dedicated to revitalizing public service by restoring public confidence in and prestige to the federal civil service.
Executives who sign up to learn how to lead fast-growth companies at IBM's Advanced Business Institute this winter also will get lessons in crisis management.
John E. Pepper, chairman of Procter & Gamble's board of directors and former chief executive of the consumer products giant, will be speaking at Cornell Thursday, Nov. 1.
The hotel business -- while suffering from the drop in air travel -- actually is doing better than has been reported, with a new marketing focus, fewer layoffs and more optimism in many quarters, a national survey of general managers shows.
A collective sigh of relief could be heard around the corridors of Cornell's Space Sciences Building late Tuesday night when the Mars Odyssey spacecraft went into orbit around Mars.
