Scratching the surface of wild tomatoes that bugs don't bother, Cornell scientists discovered the plants' chemical secret for repelling insect pests: a complex, waxy substance that commercially grown tomatoes have "forgotten" how to make.
Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.
George L. McNew, who was instrumental in bringing the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research, Inc., to its current site on the campus of Cornell University, died Oct. 30, in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 90.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has topped off a successful fund-raising campaign for its new facility with a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The appointment of Mary George Opperman as associate vice president for human resources at Cornell has been announced by Senior Vice President Frederick A. Rogers. She will assume her new position July 15.
The space in front of Bailey Hall is one of the most intensely studied areas on the Cornell campus. Numerous designs have been submitted to improve what everyone generally agrees is an eyesore. One by one, these visions proved…
The presidential and U.S. Senate races are not the only contests roiling the waters in Ithaca. On Nov. 7, residents will vote on a referendum that could allow fluoridation of the municipal water supply for the first time in the upstate city. A Cornell research class has found that while a vocal minority opposes fluoridation, city residents appear to support it.
With New England leading the way, April showers brought 133 percent of the Northeast's normal precipitation, making it the 10th wettest April in 102 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, has been named house professor and dean of the Alice H. Cook House for upper-level students on West Campus, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced today. Alice Cook House is the first house being built as part of the West Campus House System for sophomores, juniors and seniors. The groundbreaking and naming for the late Alice H. Cook, a noted professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Cornell's first ombudsman took place at a ceremony April 28. (May 27, 2003)