The John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell University has been awarded a $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to strengthen, broaden and extend the outreach of the program.
One day before the space shuttle Challenger tragedy, Voyager II scientists proudly announced the discovery of two small moons around the planet Uranus.
The Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell will host a panel discussion titled 'The National Summit on Africa' Wednesday, March 1, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hoyt Fuller Room of the center, 310 N. Triphammer Road.
The Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation has presented Cornell University's International Agriculture Program (IAP) with a six-year, $490,002 gift for the program's Central Europe Initiative.
In October 1998, Judy Shepard lost her 21-year-old son to a murder inspired by anti-gay hatred, Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming.
Will Rochester, N.Y., beat out perennial favorite Caribou, Maine, as the snowiest city in the Northeast this year? It could happen, according to statistics provided by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will speak on "Biotechnology: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Agriculture" when he addresses the Cornell Genomics Colloquium on March 10.
A memorial service for Robert Rathbun Wilson, professor of physics emeritus at Cornell, is set for Saturday, March 11, at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel. He was 85.
Sociologist Robert B. McGinnis, founder and first director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research and a pioneer in applying mathematical principles to quantitative social analysis, died Feb. 22 in Ithaca. He was 73.
Two Jewish Cuban artists will visit Cornell University in March as part of a Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibit sponsored by the Yudowitz Center for Jewish Campus Life-Cornell Hillel and the Latin American Studies Program.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has approved the conceptual plan for a groundwater recovery and treatment system proposed by Cornell University for its former low-level radiation disposal site in the Town of Lansing, north of Tompkins County Airport.
