Seven Cornell students have been selected to participate in the inaugural Henry and Nancy Horton Bartels Undergraduate Action Research Fellowship Program.
Graduates in the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club won't have much time to dwell on their accomplishments. On Memorial Day, May 28 the Glee Club and Chorus will hop a 5 p.m. flight from New York to Caracas, Venezuela.
With predictions of a 20 to 30 percent increase in enrollment at colleges and universities in many states in the decade ahead, higher education institutions face unprecedented funding challenges.
With almost a century of experience, 93-year-old Elsie Frost McMurry, professor emerita at Cornell, played dress detective for 16 years, researching and writing in longhand thousands of manuscript pages for her study of American dresses from the 1800s.
Last year, the Cornell women's lacrosse team achieved its greatest success in years, earning a top 15 ranking in the nation and winning the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship.
New York Gov. George E. Pataki has announced that Cornell's proposed genomics technologies research center will be designated as a Strategically Targeted Academic Research center.
The larvae of Manduca sexta, a moth nicknamed the tobacco hornworn, can become so chemically dependent on one of their favorite food – the leaves of eggplant, potato or tomato plants – that they would rather starve to death than eat leaves from other plants.
David Wolfe sees the forest for the trees ... and the earthworms for the soils, the prairie dogs for the grasslands and the Rhizobium for the nitrogen. In his first book, Tales From the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life.
Yield: Frogs crossing. On warm, rainy nights over the next few weeks, Cornell University biology students and members of the campus Herpetology Society will gather along a stretch of road in the Ringwood Preserve, about six miles from campus.
The Cornell University administration has announced its decision to decommission the TRIGA Mark II nuclear reactor and to phase out activities at the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, where the reactor is housed.
The visit of former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to Cornell University planned for May 29-31 has been postponed. A new date for his visit has not been determined.
