Daniel J. Decker has been named associate dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca.
By probing single-wall carbon nanotubes with an atomic force microscope (AFM), researchers at Cornell have found new ways to cut and bend the tiny tubes.
A symposium , 'Global Developments in the 21st Century,' will be hosted by Cornell's new Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Institute for Global Development, Sept. 21-22.
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has been given the new title of vice provost for land grant affairs to recognize her work with the contract colleges.
Two groups of Cornell researchers have been awarded U.S. defense agency contracts aimed at exploring a new generation of electronics technology at the molecular and nanoscale levels.
The time is ripe for serving more New York-grown produce in the state's schools. Starting this fall, school districts in Johnson City and Hannibal will make concerted efforts to incorporate more locally grown foods in their lunch programs.
Bruce S. Raynor, newly elected president of UNITE - the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees - is this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has reached a milestone in disseminating information to the developing world: It has sold its 50th 'library in a box,' a full set of scientific journals packed onto 296 CD-ROMs. Distribution began in 1999.
Novelist Alison Lurie, the F.J. Whiton Professor Emerita of American Literature at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 5 presentation, 'Secret Gardens and Enchanted Forests: Nature in Children's Literature.'
The results of a clinical study of the effects of Exisulind, a new drug that has been shown to slow tumor growth in men with advanced prostate cancer, are being published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.
Fifteen undergraduate students spent their summer vacation at Cornell researching food acids, evaluating microwave heating and grabbing dynamic laboratory experiences.
