Richard Ernst, 1991 Nobel laureate in chemistry and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, will visit Cornell Oct. 14-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
A Cornell food science student has answered an age-old question that has puzzled collegians through the years: Dude, why is the cheese on this cold pizza translucent?
The much-maligned El Niño of 1997-98 can't be blamed for bird shortages, bird surpluses or other avian population perturbations -- at least not yet -- say Cornell ornithologists who are analyzing reports from 13,000 North American citizen-scientists in Project FeederWatch.
Responding to the mass destruction in the Dominican Republic from Hurricane Georges, members of student groups and departments at Cornell met this week to formalize relief efforts for the damaged country.
The Cornell Department of Astronomy will present a public lecture next week by Columbia University astrophysicist Malvin A. Ruderman, this year's Thomas Gold Lecturer.
A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.
To acknowledge the contributions of Francille M. Firebaugh, retiring dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, alumni, colleagues and friends have endowed a student scholarship in her honor.
Gregory B. Martin has been appointed a joint professor of plant pathology at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
'Change in the Global System' is the theme for a series of lectures and exhibits Oct. 10-17 when the Cornell Department of Geological Sciences and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) celebrate national Earth Science Week.
Stanford University biologist, author and science popularizer Robert Sapolsky will speak on 'Stress and Neurodegeneration: Interventions at the Molecular Level; Interventions at the Societal Level.'
