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…
"Dr. [Martin Luther] King had the vision that we should seek to be thermostats and not just thermometers," said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League and a former mayor of New Orleans.
He was on campus Feb…
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…
NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2006) -- Smokers and former smokers should be screened for lung cancer even if they don't have symptoms, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell…
Ten seconds of video that rocked the world of ornithology - featuring a fuzzy but painstakingly analyzed ivory-billed woodpecker sighting - is now available on the Web site of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology
NEW YORK -- An alumni-driven event to celebrate diversity and advance inclusion, the Cornell Mosaic @ New York City conference, drew about 130 alumni and guests to the Cornell Club on Feb 4. Organizer Renee Alexander '74, Cornell…
Regularly scheduled help sessions for such large, introductory science courses as biology, chemistry and physics ... free tutoring ... free workshops on how to improve study skills ... a van service for students with physical…
