In this shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, pre-cooked world, Cornell University is striving to keep a strong agricultural connection active in the minds of 21st century children. The university's Agriculture in the Classroom program has developed the New York "Kids Growing Foods" school-garden program, and this spring grants are being awarded to 34 elementary schools in the state to establish or maintain these gardens.
Students in CS 502 were issued Dell laptops equipped with wireless networking cards, and Kennedy/Roberts is one of eight buildings on campus equipped with wireless transceivers linked to the campus network.
Out of about 1,200 international contestants, the Cornell University Web ProductionGroup of Media and Technology Services came in first place in a contest sponsored by Sylloge.com for designing the best "low-fat" web site.
Rodney R. Dietert, professor of immunotoxicology in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named director of the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell.
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."
