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Former Cornell Dean Francille Firebaugh receives alumni award

The Human Ecology Alumni Association of Cornell as awarded former Dean Francille Firebaugh the annual Helen Bull Vandervort Alumni Achievement Award.

Incoming Cornell students participate in a week of community service

Cornell has announced the fifth annual Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST), a community service project coordinated by the university's Public Service Center.

Greater range of jobs for upstate communities, Cornell report shows Spin-off is result of HUD investment in Canal Corridor region

Investments in upstate New York's Canal Corridor communities are generating a much broader range of jobs, among them high-skilled, high-paying jobs throughout the region, a Cornell University study released today shows.

D.C. minority teens team with Cornell planning students this week

Twenty-six black and Hispanic high school students from Washington, D.C., will learn that a university education is within their reach when they are hosted by Cornell University urban planning students and professors this Aug. 9-13.

Cooling pipes to be installed while Beebe Lake is dredged

Beebe Lake will be a lake largely without water this month when Cornell Grounds Department, at the request of Cornell Plantations, undertakes a partial dredging of the lake to remove sediment from the east end.

Cornell announces major faculty salary initiative

Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin today announced a major, multiyear program to increase the relative status of faculty compensation at Cornell.

Cornell Plantations tames the wild tomato

Cornell Plantations and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell have created a special garden that displays genetic diversity from bitter to sweet by tracing the history and development of the tomato. It is open to the public at Plantations' Pounder Heritage Vegetable Garden.

NASA chooses Cornell to lead science effort for Mars exploration mission in 2003

Cornell has been selected by NASA to provide the scientific instruments and lead the science team for the next mission to the surface of Mars. The space agency announced today that a rover mission will be launched on June 4, 2003, and the spacecraft will land on Mars on Jan. 20, 2004.

Researchers learn what it takes to make the bluebird of happiness happy

Sixteen years of hard work and setbacks have taught Professor Emeritus Richard B. Fischer what it takes to make the bluebird of happiness happy: Location, location, location. And a few amenities.

Vandalism to Cornell bridge prompts reward offer

Cornell Plantations is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for vandalism to Sackett Bridge and the surrounding area of the Cornell University campus on July 4.

Southside campers making weekly campus visits as part of new Cornell-Ithaca Partnership

Youngsters from the Southside Community Center Summer Day Camp and community residents are enjoying Cornell University's resources and attractions on weekly field trips, thanks to the The Cornell Connection, the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership's (C-IP) first program to be up and running.

Cornell and Polish research scientists lead effort to save invaluable potato genetic archive in Russia

Scientists from Cornell University's Eastern Europe-Mexico project for potato late blight control and from the Mlochow Research Center in Poland are leading an effort to save the valuable potato collection at the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry in Pushkin and St. Petersburg, Russia.