The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2001 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 25 through 27.
Cornell has received a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and related social sciences. The grant, for use over approximately five years, will help fuel ongoing academic initiatives in the humanities at Cornell.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has unveiled a web site devoted to rare, historically significant books on agriculture. Not merely citations, the books can be read in full online.
Women who gain more than the amount recommended during pregnancy are four times more likely to be obese one year after giving birth compared with mothers who gain within the recommended range, says a Cornell University nutritionist.
Two prominent physicists, Cornell University alumni Helen T. Edwards and her husband, Donald A. Edwards, have endowed a chair in accelerator physics at Cornell.
Is your asparagus ailing? Can your melons be suffering a malady? Find out what's hurting your corn and cucurbits at Vegetable MD Online, vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu, a free service of the Cornell plant pathology department.
Videoconferencing on a desktop computer is usually a bumpy ride. Even with a good Internet connection, most desktop video displays 15 frames per second or less, jumping and jerking like an old movie that has been cut and spliced a few hundred times.
It's the next best thing to being there: Cornell University Library's Making of America (MOA) Digital Collection is a major new resource for the study of 19th-century America.
A new laser-based process to study the regulation of signal transmission between cells of the nervous system has led to the discovery of several compounds that could become the basis for a cocaine-poisoning treatment.
The Rockefeller Foundation has given a $900,000, four-year grant to an interdisciplinary team of Cornell agriculture professors to develop a pilot Ph.D. training project for improving food security and natural resource management in southern and eastern Africa.
