TCAT board approves fare increase

During a meeting this morning, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit board of directors approved a 2001 fare structure. The fare increase – effective Jan. 1, 2001 – raises the single-zone cash fare from 75 cents to $1 and the multiple-zone cash fare from $1.50 to $2.

Cornell freshman, 19, dies Nov. 25

Cornell is saddened to report the death Saturday, Nov. 25, of one of its students, Graham Baker Morin, 19, of Bellingham, Wash.

Albert Williams, drama critic for the Chicago Reader, wins $10,000 George Jean Nathan Award administered by Cornell University

Albert Williams, chief theater critic at the Chicago Reader, is the winner of the 1999-2000 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

Bird brain measurements reveal why females choose great singers, Cornell neurobiologists report: Mothers want brainy babies

In a recent series of studies, Cornell neurobiologists are showing why females of some avian species choose suitors with the most elaborate courtship songs: Fancy singers have more elaborate brain structures (to learn singing and other life skills), brains that the females hope their offspring will inherit.

Corn borer damage can be halved by releasing army of wasps early and just once, says Cornell research report

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.

Antony Burgess, co-discoverer of a powerful cellular stimulant, to give first Cornell-Ludwig Cancer Biology Lecture Dec. 1

The Cornell University-Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Partnership will host its first Cancer Biology Lecture in Room G-01 in Biotechnology Building on Dec. 1. Antony Burgess, M.D., co-discoverer of a powerful cellular stimulant, will discuss "Signaling Therapeutics: Designing Drugs to Treat Cancer."

Cornell's Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be Dec. 12

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.

Cornell focuses on international education with campus events, Nov. 13-17

In a concerted effort to focus attention on the need for expanded international programs, Cornell has joined colleges and universities across the nation to celebrate the first U.S. International Education Week, Nov. 13-17.

Cornell preservation students attend to neglected historic local cemetery

This fall Cornell's Preservation Studies Student Organization undertook a stabilization project at a historic local cemetery whose oldest headstones date from 1844. The Davis Family Cemetery is located on an easement on Steep Hollow Farm in the Town of Ithaca.