Savory maple syrup, your dining room table and van loads of tourists eager to enjoy the changing autumnal colors may be history, should scientists lose the war against the hardwood trees' number-one enemy: the Asian long-horned beetle.
After the warmest year on record, how are our beloved birds faring? Bird enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds are being urged to help researchers find out by participating in the second Annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Corporate entrepreneurs in New York City will use distance learning techniques to give hands-on marketing advice to Cornell inventors on the university's upstate campus this Friday afternoon, Jan. 29. The Cornell Research Foundation offers more than 400 licenses to commercialize patentable technology invented or developed on the Cornell University campus. Among the most intriguing are:
Field studies conducted in the Amazon rain forest by Cornell undergraduate students of chemical ecology and published in the first issue of the first journal of its kind are beginning to answer some long-standing questions: Will a cup of lichen tea four times a day cure urinary tract infection or even gonorrhea?
A valuable collection of canine genetic information, developed by a research group at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, will soon be available to the international genetics community.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Jan. 27, 1999) issued a statement regarding freedom of speech and hate speech and harassment in the campus community.
Most football fans will be on tenterhooks until Super Bowl on Jan. 31, when the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons face off. But Douglas Stayman's students at Cornell will wait until the week following the main event to sit on the edge of their seats in rapt concentration.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 1999 Jan. 28 through 30 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.
In a new book, The Deep Hot Biosphere, Cornell professor emeritus of astronomy Thomas Gold argues that subterranean bacteria started the whole evolutionary process, and that there's no looming energy shortage because oil reserves are far greater than predicted.
Kenneth P. Birman, Cornell professor of computer science, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's oldest and largest organization of computer professionals. He will be formally inducted, along with 33 other new members.
The Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) presented in November its annual Innovator Awards to three successful collaborative programs in New York state: Community Links, the Community Plant-Food Project and the Small-Scale Food Processing and Sustainable Agriculture project.
