Manhattan extension training is a walk in the park — with science and hands-on classes

Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City has partnered with the Central Park Conservancy and NYC Parks Department to train staff and volunteers on the basics of horticulture and urban ecology.

Nobel Laureate Chu emphasizes energy efficiency, innovation in Bethe lecture

Steven Chu, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for 'development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light,' delivered the 2008 Hans A. Bethe lecture at Cornell April 16.

'Planet doctor' warns that climate change will wipe out entire species

Eminent conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy warns of dire consequences from global warming, April 18, at the Museum of the Earth. (April 22, 2008)

Lab of O helps protect endangered right whales with warning buoys in shipping lanes

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are safer along Massachusetts Bay's busy shipping lanes this spring, thanks to a new system of buoys that recognize whales' distinctive calls. (April 22, 2008)

Walter T. Federer, father of Cornell's statistics department, dies at 92

Cornell Professor Emeritus of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology Walter T. Federer, who is credited with founding Cornell's original statistics department, died April 14. He was 92. (April 18, 2008)

How campus researchers helped to rescue a rain forest

Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Sciences at Cornell are doing what many thought was impossible: reviving a rain forest that was demolished 50 years ago. (April 17, 2008)

A chance discovery in Mexico leads Cornell scientist to rewrite fossil history of shell-breaking crab

Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl's chance discovery of a 69 million-year-old crab fossil shows that shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than scientists thought. (April 16, 2008)

Drums along the campus: For ninth year, powwow brings American Indian culture to Cornell

American Indians from communities in upstate New York, including the Oneida and Onondaga Nations, came to campus for Cornell's Ninth Annual Powwow and Smokedance, Saturday, April 12. (April 15, 2008)

Howard Milstein '73 stresses unorthodox approaches as pathway to success

There are always ways to improve a situation and do things better than they've been done before, said Howard Milstein '73, the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year, at the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration. (April 14, 2008)