It's a piece of celestial real estate," the asteroid's discoverer, astronomer Ted Bowell, told celebrants Sunday at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM) being hosted at the university.
Cornell's computer scientists and librarians will form an unusual partnership to develop better ways to manage and ensure the integrity of documents and other data in the digital library of the future.
Science educators at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences hope dog-lovers can sit-and-stay by their computers for six weeks. That's how long it takes to complete a new home-study course on canine genetics via the Internet.
When Charlie Rockhill, a single father of two young teen-agers, lost his job after a back injury, his income plummeted to $148 a week, which he supplemented with $86 a month in food stamps.
Cornell officials have announced two key staff appointments: Lynette Chappell-Williams has been named director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), and Mary Beth Grant has been named judicial administrator (JA).
Historic Ithaca and Cornell have agreed on a plan to donate a 180-year-old house on Pleasant Grove Road to Historic Ithaca, which will move the structure to a university-owned site.
Just one firefly, with its poisonous lucibufagin chemicals, is enough to kill a lizard, a lesson that American zookeepers and pet owners are learning the hard way. Some of the most popular lizards in zoos and private collections are from parts of the world without poisonous fireflies.
At 92 years of age, Fred Whipple, the noted Harvard astronomer who fathered the phrase 'dirty snowball' to describe comets, has been named to serve on a NASA space mission team.
New information on the materials that make up the structure of asteroid families will be presented by Shelte Bus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at a press conference Tuesday, the second day of the International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference.
Up to half of older Americans could postpone going into nursing homes if more group housing options were available, say two Cornell researchers. Although group living offers seniors lower-cost housing, independence, social interaction and a wide range of household and health services.
A Cornell University-city of Ithaca partnership hopes to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assist in revitalizing neighborhoods in the city of Ithaca and to help enhance the quality of life in the city.
Scientists may soon be able to quickly produce genetically modified crops without transferring genes across species, providing a novel approach to modifying plant characteristics to generate new traits. The new technique could be applied to improving the nutritional value and productivity of foods without the involvement of foreign DNA.
