William Donald Cooke, Cornell professor emeritus of chemical and chemical biology and a longtime university administrator, died Sept. 20 at his home in Ithaca. He was 89. (Sept. 26, 2007)
The Wortham Military Museum at Cornell University is not a secret. But neither is it a household name. Located on the fourth floor of Barton Hall and overseen by Cornell Army ROTC, the museum was established in 1973 with a…
By 'unzipping' single DNA molecules, a Cornell research team has gained new insight into how genes are packed and expressed within cells. (Jan. 27, 2009)
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station will move its grape research laboratory from Fredonia to Portland, N.Y., onto recently purchased land, with more than $5 million of state funding.
History professor Steven Kaplan discusses the importance of the Marquis de Lafayette to America and the Cornell University Library collection of Lafayette's papers, the largest collection outside France. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Six Cornell professors shed some light on the reality of social behavior during 'A Meeting of the Minds: Decoding Our Decisions' at the Big Red by the Bay event March 18 in San Francisco. (March 24, 2010)
Several Cornell Library donors talked about the thrill of building specialized collections at a Cornell Library Salon March 16 at the Grolier Club in New York City. (March 22, 2010)
Bruce Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will discuss anti-matter and radiation left over from the big bang when he delivers three Hans A. Bethe lectures at Cornell University April 12, 14 and 19. All three talks will be in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on campus and will be open to the public without charge. (April 8, 2004)
Bill Nye, TV's popular advocate for science education, returns to Cornell on April 3-12 in his role as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. He will deliver a public lecture April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.