Bruce S. Raynor, newly elected president of UNITE - the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees - is this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has reached a milestone in disseminating information to the developing world: It has sold its 50th 'library in a box,' a full set of scientific journals packed onto 296 CD-ROMs. Distribution began in 1999.
Novelist Alison Lurie, the F.J. Whiton Professor Emerita of American Literature at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 5 presentation, 'Secret Gardens and Enchanted Forests: Nature in Children's Literature.'
The results of a clinical study of the effects of Exisulind, a new drug that has been shown to slow tumor growth in men with advanced prostate cancer, are being published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.
Fifteen undergraduate students spent their summer vacation at Cornell researching food acids, evaluating microwave heating and grabbing dynamic laboratory experiences.
Cornell University Police is conducting an investigation into an apparent prank in Fall Creek gorge and requests that anyone with information contact investigators.
The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT), in which Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a major participant, has found that certain advanced emphysema patients benefit little from Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) and are at unacceptable risk of death from the procedure.
Carving knives may be the least of threats to pumpkins this Halloween, because a pumpkin-destroying disease called bacterial wilt, spread by striped or spotted cucumber beetles, has been found in the upper Midwest and the Northeast, says a Cornell plant pathologist.
When Cornell's energy supplier, NYSEG, made an Aug. 8 request for a voluntary power reduction – to help avoid rolling blackouts during a midsummer heat wave in Tompkins County and New York state – members of the campus community responded immediately.
