Construction projects and bridge repairs will soon put the squeeze on campus drivers. The good news: When the dust settles, Thurston Avenue Bridge will have been widened to better accommodate pedestrian, bicycle and car traffic,…
U.S. citizens will be able to understand and comment, via the Internet, on important new government regulations, thanks to a multidisciplinary Cornell team and a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Digital…
The controversy over teaching evolution in public schools brings to light deeper issues: the quality of teacher education, the nature of school science curricula, the U.S. Constitution and political process, anti-intellectualism…
"Half of Americans do not believe in evolution," stated Warren Allmon, director of Ithaca's Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), at a public lecture Feb. 11 at Ithaca's Museum of the Earth. Allmon's lecture was one of…
How evolutionary biology shapes our understanding of other areas of science, including genomics, was just one of the themes of a public panel discussion Feb. 10 associated with Ithaca's Darwin Day to celebrate Charles Darwin's…
To make their winter break count for something more than rest and relaxation, a group of Cornell students took a 10-day work trip to east Africa, where they provided Tanzanian seed companies with technical and analytical…
The Buffalo Pest Management Board of Buffalo, N.Y., has been awarded the Excellence in IPM Award by the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program, a partnership between the state and Cornell University, for its can-do attitude in seeking and promoting lowest-risk solutions to the city's pest problems. (February 14, 2006)
Several faculty members and a graduate student in Cornell's College of Engineering are recipients of recent awards and honors. They include Fred Kulhawy, David Putnam, Leslie Banks-Sills and Filip Radlinski.
Kulhawy, professor…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby" will be required reading for more than 3,000 incoming freshman and transfer students this fall. The selection of "Gatsby" for the 2006 New Student Reading Project was…
George Lamont's best new idea in apple growing is one he can't sell other growers on. But it has cut his herbicide bill "drastically," he says. He hit on the idea about 10 years ago, after he pushed a probe into soil to test for…
Katherine Reagan, curator of rare books in the Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections since 2000, has been named the Ernest L. Stern '56 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the next five…
