Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell, is one of two scientists to share the prestigious 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for his "innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple."
To play PhotoCity, you have to get up from your computer and walk around campus. The game knits together still photos of an object taken from many angles to create a 3-D model of the Cornell campus. (Feb. 24, 2010)
On March 23 Cornell held a Library Salon at Lighthouse International in Manhattan that focused on the 1911 Triangle factory fire and the ILR School's Kheel Center collection and website about the fire. (March 28, 2011)
Cornell students affiliated with the Immigrant Farmworker Initiative visit farms to teach these workers English. They also work on campus to raise awareness about farmworker issues.
Liberation, not equality, should be the goal of social justice, asserted Amber Hollibaugh, an activist for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in Cornell's Lewis auditorium, March 4.
CNF expects hundreds of guests, including many from the Cornell research community, to attend its 30th anniversary celebration, 'The Future of Nanotechnology,' on June 14. (May 29, 2007)
Stephen Kresovich, professor of plant breeding and director of the Institute for Genomic Diversity at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies.
Mike Whalen donated Cornell student scrapbooks and other memorabilia, including a photo of William Bowler, one of two Haitian students in 1869, to Cornell University Library. (Feb. 18, 2010)
In a July 8 lecture at Cornell, Amy Dickinson said her background and her strong family network have given her the expertise she needs to write the syndicated advice column 'Ask Amy.' (July 9, 2009)
For the second year in a row, New York's fledgling hops industry -- developed by Cornell University, the Northeast Hops Alliance and New York's Department of Agriculture and Markets -- continues to grow.