Staff and faculty from a variety of Cornell research centers traveled to New York to spend three days providing underrepresented populations with research-based science education programming. (May 16, 2007)
To help government agencies deal with rule-making in the Internet age and make the process more accessible to the public, Cornell scientists and legal experts have created the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative. (May 16, 2007)
The Lab of Ornithology's competitive birding team won the annual World Series of Birding May 12-13 with 230 species sightings and soundings -- knocking out rival competitors for the third year in a row. (May 16, 2007)
Children and adults joined the Lab of Ornithology and Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City May 10-13 to Celebrate Urban Birds -- NYC. (May 14, 2007)
Cornell will host the Dalai Lama, speaking on 'A Human Approach to World Peace,' Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. in Barton Hall. Tickets can be purchased online only starting May 23. (May 14, 2007)
Graduate students Dana Warren and Marissa Weiss designed an interactive workshop that gives future scientists a chance to think -- and communicate -- like journalists. (May 14, 2007)
Research related to the effects of climate change should be a high priority for applied federal research funds at Cornell, said participants at a daylong conference May 9.
Parasites, pathogens and pesticides are all possible suspects in the staggering decline of honeybees, said Cornell associate professor of entomology Nicholas Calderone, during a media teleconference May 10.
Most busloads of visitors to Cornell are schoolchildren on field trips, but on May 8, four buses delivered 55 senior citizens from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to the Carl L. Becker House. (May 11, 2007)
In the journal Nature, Cornell biogeochemist Johannes Lehmann writes that an economical way to help offset global warming is to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by charring biomass without the use of oxygen. (May 11, 2007)
Antje Baeumner, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, has been awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship and a Mercator Guest Professorship. (May 10, 2007)
