Viburnum leaf beetles are chewing susceptible bushes into skeletal remains in central, western and northern New York state. The beetles, which face few predators, now appear to be taking aim at western New England and parts of Pennsylvania, and they are poised to move into the Hudson Valley, the New York City metropolitan area and Long Island.
The Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Cornell continues to offer a slate of free public lectures for the entire community during Women's History Month and into April.
A tiny, voracious fly called the swede midge, which already has eaten its way across eastern Canada's cabbage and broccoli fields, now is threatening to descend on crops in states along the northern U.S. border. On Feb. 11 an educational session on the swede midge will be held for registered growers at the 2003 New York State Vegetable Conference in Liverpool, N.Y
A community program to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, 318 N. Albany St., on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Environmental sculptor Andy Goldsworthy will present a public lecture "Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time," on Dec. 4 , at 7:30 p.m. in the David Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell campus.
Six members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 291 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.
Forget the flat-topped, rheumy-eyed giant with the zombie shuffle and the rigor-mortis grin. That's kid stuff. This is the real thing: Frankenstein, the book, written by an 18-year-old Englishwoman named Mary Shelley. And Cornell and the entire Ithaca community are in on it. More than 3,500 new students at Cornell, as well as many faculty, staff and continuing students.
Japanese shore crabs, a square-shaped crustacean that poses a direct threat to soft-shell (steamer) clams, mussels and lobsters, were discovered July 13 by Cornell University marine biologists in Owl's Head, Maine, on the shores of Penobscot Bay. The detection of this crab, which has the potential to hurt Maine's seafood industry.
