Imagine that it's a frigid 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Salt trucks are out on the roads, and children are building snowmen. It's a perfect day to harvest lettuce.
A $40,000 grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will help the Cornell University Library conserve and catalog some 15,000 historic architectural photographs in the Andrew Dickson White Photograph Collection.
A symposium will be held at Cornell Dec. 10 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) and the associated research facilities.
Alexander V. Rau, a Cornell senior majoring in physics, is one of 40 students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for at least two years of study in the United Kingdom.
Among the holiday treasures adorning the White House this season are two dozen miniature bound books created by the staff at Cornell University Library's Preservation and Conservation Department.
Millions of years before humans invented the barometer to measure atmospheric pressure, a primitive winged insect was experimentally measuring air's density and leaving barometer readings in the fossil record, according to a Cornell geologist.
Although hard-working gardeners look forward to the end of another growing season, a few precautions during the winter months will make plants healthier in the spring, according to experts at Cornell Plantations.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Committee on Athletics Certification has approved Cornell's athletic programs for certification in Division I. The certification, announced Dec. 2.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Frederick A. Rogers, Cornell's senior vice president and chief financial officer, announced Dec. 9, 1999 that he will be stepping down from that position to assume the presidency of a new Internet company that will serve the education community.
Don M. Randel, provost of Cornell since 1995 and a faculty member since 1968, has been recommended to the board of trustees of the University of Chicago to serve as its 12th president, the University of Chicago.
A fortified, orange-flavored powdered drink, tested in Tanzania by Cornell researchers who found it can significantly help improve children's nutrition and growth, has been launched as a commercial product by Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) in the Philippines.
