Despite dramatic losses in wild honeybees and in colonies maintained by hobbyist beekeepers, Cornell apiculturists say the pollination needs of commercial agriculture in the United States are being met.
A research consortium led by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations has been awarded a two-year $400,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for an international project titled "Workers in the Global Economy."
Today, about 780 million people in developing countries still do not have access to enough food to meet their basic daily needs for nutritional well-being. To review the nature of hunger and malnutrition in the world today, describe the causes and ways to deal with hunger and malnutrition and discuss international food and nutrition issues.
NASA today (Oct. 21, 1997) awarded a $154 million grant to Cornell University to lead and direct close-proximity comet fly-bys scheduled for launch early in the next century.
CONTOUR's goals are to dramatically improve of comet nuclei and to assess their diversity. The targets span the range from evolved comet (Encke) to a future on the exploratory results from the Halley flybys, and will extend the of data obtained by NASA's Stardust and ESA's Rosetta understanding of comets.
Robert S. Summers, the William G. McRoberts Research Professor in Administration of the Law, is co-editor, with D. Neil MacCormick, professor at the University of Edinburgh, of the recently published book Interpreting Precedent: A Comparative Study.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell has been awarded a $425,000 challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an endowment fund to strengthen the museum's education programming within the university.
Patrice Gaines, an African-American woman who survived batterings, sexual abuse and a prison sentence for heroin possession to become a prize-winning Washington Post reporter and author, will share her story and offer suggestions for implementing change in one's life Monday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium.
Growers who follow U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules in applying sewage sludge as fertilizer to their land may be inadvertantly endangering human health, the environment and the future productivity of their own crops.
While most Cornell seniors are stressing over resumes and graduate school applications, Daniel Cane '98 is concentrating on his company's first academic marketing conference at the end of next month. (Oct. 16, 1997)
Despite 27 low-temperature records falling throughout the Northeast in September, the average temperatures for the month were not far from normal -- making this the 30th coolest September in the last 103 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Author and poet Peter Balakian will speak on 'The Armenian Genocide and Inter-Generational Transmission of Trauma,' Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium.
