In a war against the European corn borer, a major pest of sweet corn, Cornell scientists have found that an army of tiny wasps, released just once and early in the season, can reduce damage to ears of corn by half.
The annual Cornell Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. hosted by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
Just in time for Halloween, spider expert Linda Rayor will be showing and telling all about certain scary arachnids, in her talk "Tarantulas: Terrific or Terrible?" Saturday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. at Ithaca Sciencenter.
Cornell University will host the "2000 Greenhouse Management Conference: Grow Your Greenhouse" conference Nov. 9 and 10 at the Holiday Inn, Batavia, N.Y. The conference is being held in conjunction with the Country Folks Grower Trade Show and Garden Plant Education Day. The conference is for anyone interested in starting or expanding a greenhouse business or for those involved in the horticultural industry, either as managers or as service providers, and for horticultural educators.
Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics will hold an in-service income tax school in November to review tax reporting and management.
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor eight alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 13.
Cornell biologists have shown how tiny molecular motors carrying target proteins help orient the spindle-like apparatus that transfers genetic material from the nucleus of a mother cell to the daughter. The research explains an essential mechanism in the birth of a new cell, and how failures of molecular motors can have dire consequences for new cell formation.
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.
