As Robert (Bob) Petrillose, the owner of Ithaca's late-night Johnny's Hot Truck, nears retirement, a group of Cornell alumni are seeking to give his locally famous menu of pizza sub sandwiches a national audience.
For the seventh time since their arrival as members of Cornell's music faculty, Karlton E. Hester and Roberto Sierra each have garnered an award from the American Society of Composers, Publishers and Authors (ASCAP).
Using the radar systems at the National Science Foundation's recently upgraded radio/radar telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California, astronomers have obtained the most-detailed pictures yet of an asteroid.
In the war against a fungus devastating to grapes, Cornell scientists may have learned mites' real might. To do battle against powdery mildew, Cornell scientists have turned to the shady underworld of wild grapes.
A report on downtown revitalization by six students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management found that retail business can add to an established downtown but cannot anchor it.
Many Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to write information to magnetic material that could lead to new computer memory chips that will have a very high storage capacity and will be non-volatile, meaning they would not require a constant electric current flowing to maintain stored information.
Retired men who return to work report the highest morale and lowest levels of depression - especially if their wives remain at home - compared with other couples, both working and retired, according to a new Cornell University study.
Walter LaFeber's latest book was intended for use in the lecture hall. But 'Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism' (Norton, $22.95) has proven to be compelling grist for a much wider audience.
Cornell University professors Muawia Barazangi of geological sciences and Thomas D. O'Rourke of civil engineering are available to comment on the recent earthquake in Turkey.
Horticulturists, authors and landscape designers - plus one ecologist, one mycologist and one literary critic - are in the lineup for the Fall '99 Cornell Plantations Seminar Series with 10 Wednesday evening lectures, starting Sept. 8 at Cornell.
The good news is that all the roads on Cornell's campus - including those that have been closed for construction for most of the summer - will be open Friday (Aug. 20). The bad news is those roads will be clogged with thousands of cars as some 3,200 new students arrive.
