The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell is now offering new majors for undergraduate students in viticulture (grape growing) and enology (winemaking).
Students from 11 top-tier U.S. business schools will compete in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge next Thursday and Friday, April 1 and 2, at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The competition will showcase the stock picking and presentation skills of MBA students who hope to be hired as stock analysts after they graduate. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team an award of $1,500. (March 26, 2004)
On March 2, Cornell's Steven Squyres, principal investigator on the twin-rover Mars mission, told a press briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., that his team had found jarosite on Mars.
The human hepatitis C virus is a target of drug-discovery research by a Cornell scientist and an Ithaca company, among the latest recipients of support from the New York Science, Technology and Academic Research program.
Women's History Month is being celebrated at Cornell during March with a series of lectures, performances, seminars, readings, conferences and round-table discussions.
The Truest Pleasure reads as naturally as if it were an autobiography. 'Like a fireside chat,' writes one reviewer in Southern Living magazine. But it took six manuscripts to get it right, says award-winning poet and novelist Robert Morgan of his latest work.
The Tolani Shipping Co. has established the Tolani Senior Professorship in International Trade Policy at Cornell. The professorship honors alumnus Nandlal P. Tolani.
Mothers looking for employment face disadvantages - including being less likely to be hired, being offered lower salaries and facing a perception that they would be less committed to a job - than fathers or women without children, according to an experiment conducted by researchers at Cornell.
Rising prices at gas pumps are a reminder that the world's supply of fossil fuels is shrinking and may be depleted by as soon as the year 2025, said presenters at an international conference on sustainable technology and new-market creation held at Cornell July 20-22.
Hundreds of members of the Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 24, for Cornell University's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.