Nuclear reactor pioneer John Perry Howe, a former engineering professor at Cornell and director of the university's Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1962 to 1965, died in La Jolla, Calif., June 13.
Porus Olpadwala, a city planning professor at Cornell University, has accepted the deanship of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He had been interim dean of the college since July 1998.
The possibility of the Earth being struck by comets or asteroids is being given more and more attention by researchers, according to Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The Sciencenter of Ithaca and Cornell University will answer a "jean-etics" question July 13, 10:30 a.m., at the Sciencenter: How many bluejeans does it take to lift a Volvo?
The S.T. Olin Chemistry Research Laboratory at Cornell University returned to use this morning after a second-floor fire in a research lab Thursday evening, July 10. The fire began at approximately 10 p.m. and involved a quantity of flammable liquids. The building was evacuated and the fire was extinguished by the Ithaca Fire Department.
Cornell is bringing some of the money it spends home to Tompkins County, and saving some for itself, by adopting Tompkins County Trust Co. (TCTC) as the vendor for the Visa cards used by campus faculty and staff.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., an affiliate of Cornell University, announced that clinical trials will begin today (July 7) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., to test the safety and immunogenicity of the world's first potential oral vaccine against the hepatitis B virus.
Many college students regale their friends -- and scare their parents -- with tales of widespread and excessive drinking, smoking and other drug use on campus.
An exotic piece of apparatus that will be the heart of a detector to seek out the primordial secrets of the universe arrived at Cornell's Wilson Laboratory July 7.
Foods with fat substitutes might have fewer grams of fat, but they don't necessarily have significantly fewer calories, warns a Cornell University nutrition expert.
John Eckenrode, professor and chair of human development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell, served as Cornell's representative last month at Vice President Al Gore's forum.
