Dean Lee Taylor, a Cornell University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a leading researcher and educator in computer-aided design, died at home in Ithaca July 31.
The Graduate Record Examination does little to predict who will do well in graduate school for psychology and quite likely in other fields as well, according to a new study by Cornell and Yale universities. (Aug. 4, 1997)
Robert J. "Jeff" Wagenet, Cornell University professor and former chair of the Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences Department, died July 31 of cancer. He was 46. Wagenet came to Cornell in 1982 as an associate professor in the agronomy department.
U.S. Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.) will present the welcoming address to scientists and foresters attending an agroforestry conference hosted by Cornell University on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 6 p.m., in Trillium Dining Hall, Kennedy Hall, on the Cornell.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University will hold its annual Labor Day celebration Thursday, Aug. 28, at noon in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building.
Native Americas journal, the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Educational Foundation of America.
Growers know that after years of driving heavy farm equipment over wet soil during the planting or harvest seasons, the soil gets compacted. In compacted soil, crops have difficulty growing.
Fusarium head blight, a plant disease also known as wheat scab, has taken aim at America's breadbasket and threatens New York's $30 million wheat-growing industry, according to Cornell plant pathologists.
If the Presidential Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels has its way, consumers soon will have much more access to scientific information about the benefits and need for dietary supplements, which include vitamins, minerals and a vast array of botanical products.
Cornell editors and writers received five national awards this year from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), which recognizes excellence in programs and publications in development, alumni relations, communications and public affairs.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, with funding from the city of Ithaca, provided free bus service between downtown and Ithaca College on the evening of July 3 for the community fireworks display, and almost 1,500 passenger-trips kept the buses busy, transporting 750 people to and from the show.
In early June, Tompkins County Area Transit introduced the Summer Fun Pass. The pass, for youths ages 6 to 18, is valid on any Tompkins County Area Transit bus in Tompkins County this summer, through Aug. 31.
