The potential for disaster due to climate change is so great that we should err on the side of caution, stressed Linda Harrar '71 in addressing the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) April 1 on campus. When the stakes…
Although people are still extremely connected to their cars, the way we get from place to place is evolving from a monoculture of automobiles into a culture featuring a mix of much more sophisticated systems of transportation. …
"Is it fair trade when you get designer prices for it?"
"New York education standards should require students to learn the relationship between their shirt and the global world."
"We need to connect fair trade with local…
Insects are good for the economy. According to a new study co-authored by John Losey, the dollar value of some insect services is more than $57 billion a year.
It looks like March will be going out like a lamb -- a very dry lamb -- at least for the coastal Northeast. Many cities along the Eastern seaboard -- including New York, Boston, Baltimore, Atlantic City and Washington, D.C. --…
Dilute solutions of alcohol -- though not beer or wine -- can reduce paperwhite growth by half but not affects its flowers, says William Miller, professor of horticulture and director of the Flower Bulb Research Program at Cornell. (March 31, 2006)
Former "Python" John Cleese is among three Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large who will give public talks at Cornell University this month – but he's the only you will need tickets to hear.
Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, India's largest and most successful business conglomerate, will give the 2006 Hatfield address, Monday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Kennedy Hall's Call…
NEW YORK -- On March 30, Martin F. Scheinman, B.S. '75, M.S. '76, a prominent arbitrator and mediator of workplace disputes and a longtime supporter of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, received the Judge…
Give New Yorkers the opportunity to buy more state-produced maple products and New York maple-syrup producers could reap profits five times greater than what they make now.
So says Stephen Childs, an extension associate in…
Rich Muscarella, head of Ashland Pest Control in Buffalo, N.Y., has been awarded an Excellence in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) from the New York State IPM Program at Cornell University for his proactive, least-risk approach…
A memorial service for Cornell freshman Matthew Pearlstone will be held Monday, April 3, at 5 p.m. in the Townhouse Community Center on North Campus. Rev. Janet Shortall and Rabbi Ed Rosenthal will lead the service.
Pearlstone,…
