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)
Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci write a Cornell Perspectives piece on why tenure doesn't necessarily confer moxie, and other findings from the frontlines of academic freedom. (May 10, 2007)
While serving in the New York State Senate, Ezra Cornell met Andrew Dickson White of Syracuse. At the time, Cornell was the oldest member of the Senate and White the youngest. (May 10, 2007)
At a May 7 panel discussion on reducing Cornell's environmental footprint, Cornell administrators, faculty members and students agreed that energy reduction and greater efficiencies will not be enough. (May 9, 2007)
e2e Materials, a company based on technology developed by Cornell fiber science and apparel design professor Anil Netravali, won the seventh annual BR Ventures Business Idea Competition. (May 9, 2007)
