Cornell Plantations and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell have created a special garden that displays genetic diversity from bitter to sweet by tracing the history and development of the tomato. It is open to the public at Plantations' Pounder Heritage Vegetable Garden.
Cornell has been selected by NASA to provide the scientific instruments and lead the science team for the next mission to the surface of Mars. The space agency announced today that a rover mission will be launched on June 4, 2003, and the spacecraft will land on Mars on Jan. 20, 2004.
Sixteen years of hard work and setbacks have taught Professor Emeritus Richard B. Fischer what it takes to make the bluebird of happiness happy: Location, location, location. And a few amenities.
Cornell Plantations is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for vandalism to Sackett Bridge and the surrounding area of the Cornell University campus on July 4.
Youngsters from the Southside Community Center Summer Day Camp and community residents are enjoying Cornell University's resources and attractions on weekly field trips, thanks to the The Cornell Connection, the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership's (C-IP) first program to be up and running.
Scientists from Cornell University's Eastern Europe-Mexico project for potato late blight control and from the Mlochow Research Center in Poland are leading an effort to save the valuable potato collection at the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry in Pushkin and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Cornell University Public Service Center has been awarded AmeriCorps funding by the Federal Corporation for National Service, the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, for the 2000-01 program year.
Got a milk mustache? You can enter it in a contest when the Milk Mustache Mobile bellies up to the Cornell Dairy Bar July 26 from 1 to 5 p.m. The Ithaca winner of the milk-mustache contest will compete for a spot in an advertisement to appear in ESPN Magazine.
The patenting of genes, or other scientific discoveries, need not interfere with the free exchange of information among scientists, and it is often the best way to bring the benefits of discoveries to the public, a Cornell University patent and licensing manager will tell Congress today (Thursday, July 13). James A. Severson, president of the Cornell Research Foundation, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Large portions of the Rocky Mountains may not be as pristine as once thought. According to a new study, cadmium is affecting the ptarmigan in mining areas and may threaten some populations of the bird with extinction. Cadmium from abandoned mines may also affect other wildlife species in the area, including deer, elk, moose, rabbits, beaver and other birds, the researchers predict.
A Board of Cooperative Educational Services program is aimed at helping students with learning disabilities early on. The Career Exploration Program is run by Bill Woodams.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has received a substantial increase in revenues from the sale of privately held stock that had been held by Cornell as a gift from the estate of George and Mary Rockwell.
