Steven Beckwith, former Cornell professor of astronomy and now director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the astronomical research center responsible for operating the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Cornell Police Department and the New York State Police Southern Tier Community Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET) have completed a one-month investigation into narcotics sales on campus that resulted in the arrests.
An enduring nuptial gift is included in every sperm package from a male rattlebox moth (Utetheisa ornatrix) to his freshly mated female: a potent, plant-derived chemical that protects her for life against predatory spiders, biologists at Cornell have discovered.
Three students were arrested May 4 during a protest related to the use of animals in biology courses at Cornell. Two students were removed from the roof of Day Hall this morning after they chained themselves to the building's flagpoles.
Bruce S. Raynor, secretary-treasurer of UNITE, the pre-eminent textile and apparel union in North America, is the recipient of the 1999 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
Cornell biologists who study dwindling populations of one of the rarest mammals in North America have found another reason to let "natural" fires burn. Without lightning-sparked fires every 10 to 12 years, they say, pine trees are isolating Northern Idaho ground squirrels into shrinking groups.
Cornell's food scientists have for the first time made publicly available on the World Wide Web a database of bacterial, genetic "fingerprints." The database includes food pathogens and so-called "probiotic" beneficial bacteria that are ingredients in many health foods and beverages.
Karl J. Siebert, professor of food science, will receive the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction at the society's annual meeting in Phoenix on June 23.
Students at Lansing High School are participating in the first field test of a robot vehicle that will explore the surface of Mars in the early years of the new century.
