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.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) system plans to implement several minor service revisions this Thursday, Feb. 24. Area riders should look for time schedule changes, route changes, and relocated bus stops.
The Institute for Women and Work at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations recently received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to hold an international conference next year.
Lulled into lexical laziness by years of oversimplified schoolbooks, American students are in for a shock when they reach high school: Science books often are too hard for them to read, according to a Cornell sociologist.
In the developed world, societies enjoy abundant diets more varied now than at any other time in history. That's in stark contrast to the developing world where millions of people confront profound food insecurity every day.
