The President's Council of Cornell Women at Cornell has awarded 17 grants to help advance the careers of women in academia through support of the completion of dissertations and research leading to tenure and promotion.
Motorists on the Cornell campus should expect some delays when traveling on Campus Road between Stewart and Central avenues due to road construction from June 9 to July 14. James Finnigan of the Department of Planning, Design and Construction said Campus Road will be milled and resurfaced during that time.
More than 90 percent of all businesses in this country are family businesses, which make them an integral part of the American economy. Strengthening these family firms will be the focus of the 1997 Chautauqua Family Business Conference: Growth and Transitioning, Monday, July 14.
The forecast: Sunny with a chance of fungus. Such a forecast would be welcome news to farmers when used with conventional weather reports, as fruit, vegetable and crop growers in the Northeast try to get a jump on crop pests that could decimate their stock.
The threat of a rare but serious condition in cats - vaccine-associated feline sarcoma - is prompting veterinary experts to advise cat owners and their veterinarians to think twice about whether all vaccinations are necessary for all cats.
Edwin E. Salpeter, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell, has won the 1997 Crafoord Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday (May 28).
Young women with low body iron -- but who are not quite anemic -- must use more effort to do the same amount of physical work or exercise than women who are not iron- deficient, according to several new Cornell studies.
Cornell's student Food Product Development Team is a finalist in the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' national competition and are hoping for a three-peat. The Cornell team, which has been one of six finalists for three consecutive years, won the competiton last year and the year before.
Barclay G. Jones, Cornell professor of city and regional planning and regional science who was a noted expert on protecting historic structures from earthquake damage and on the social and economic devastation of national disasters, died May 26 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.
If you're wondering how you're going to get the kids from point A to point B, over to C, back to B, over to D and finally back to point A again, Tcat -- Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit -- has a solution.
More than half of American high school students don't go on to college and often flounder in "dead-end" jobs. They - as well as college-bound students - would benefit dramatically from planned workplace experiences, according to a Cornell expert.
Farmers and other interested agriculturists will be at the Agricultural Environmental Management Conference and Workshop, coordinated by Cornell University, May 28-29, at the Holiday Inn, 75 North St., Auburn, N.Y. The media is invited to attend.
