Cornell Professor Emeritus Alfred E. Kahn is the recipient of the 1997 Welch Pogue Award. The award, presented by Aviation Week Group, publishers of Aviation Week & Space Technology,, honors a visionary and prominent leader's lifetime contributions to aviation.
By replacing outdated lighting and timers, great energy savings are expected to be realized in growth chambers in the greenhouses of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. (July 6, 2011)
Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has entered into an academic agreement with Hobart and William Smith Colleges that allows HWS students to work and study with NYSAES scientists. (Sept. 4, 2007)
Exploring new possibilities in research collaborations and faculty exchanges, a seven-member contingent of Cornell faculty recently finished a series of nanoscience workshops at two Chinese universities.
Participant Stephen Sass,…
Donald P. Hayes, Cornell professor emeritus of sociology and developer of LEX, a scientific measure of the lexical difficulty of text, died at his Ithaca home Oct. 17.
Kayoko Hirata '11 has been named one of eight students in the United States to join the executive committee of the Japan-America Student Conference, which promotes Japanese-American relations. (Feb. 24, 2009)
Artificial tissues with an embedded vascular system and a skull base sealer were two Cornell student inventions honored as finalists in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. (Oct. 21, 2009)
Novelist Alison Lurie, the F.J. Whiton Professor Emerita of American Literature at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 5 presentation, 'Secret Gardens and Enchanted Forests: Nature in Children's Literature.'
For Cornell's second annual Fuel Cell Ride and Drive, representatives from Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz publicly displayed each company's hydrogen fuel-cell car prototype. (Oct. 20, 2009)