The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.
Step away from the pen, holster up a gene gun, and give your readers, viewers and listeners something they can chew on: Your very own genetically modified organism.
Kathryn Abrams, professor of law at Cornell University's Law School and a nationally recognized scholar on feminist jurisprudence, has been named the winner of the 2000 Anne Lukingbeal Award.
Cornell archaeologist Andrew Ramage was a Harvard University graduate student when he struck gold at an excavation site in Sardis, Turkey, in 1968. Ramage's detective work led to a one-of-a-kind discovery: a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first "millionaire."
The Dyce Laboratory for Honey Bee Studies at Cornell is offering Master Beekeeper Program courses this spring and early summer at various locations throughout New York state, including Ithaca.
While ornithologists consider cowbirds the parasites of the bird world - commandeering the nests of other birds, hoarding their food and causing starvation - Cornell behavioral researchers know these songbirds have a redeeming quality.
David W. Butler, who has served as associate dean of executive education at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration since 1993, has been nominated by President Hunter Rawlings to become the school's next dean, Rawlings announced on May 4, 2000.
Astronomers using the world's most powerful radar system, the massive Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, have obtained radar images of a giant, dog bone-shaped asteroid, an apparent leftover from an ancient, violent cosmic collision.
New York's other World Series team, the Sapsuckers from the Laboratory of Ornithology, are scanning the skies of the Garden State in hopes that 2000 will be the year they finally take top honors in the World Series of Birding.
