The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell will receive a Grand Challenge award June 19 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its bioenergy vision paper. (June 6, 2008)
Clint Sidle of the Johnson School has published a new book 'This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness,' which discusses the meaning we can derive from serving other people or greater causes.
Alumni, President Skorton and five past and present deans helped Cornell's School of Hotel Administration celebrate its 85th anniversary Sept. 24 in New York City. (Sept. 28, 2007)
Cornell and Boyce Thompson Institute researchers have received a $4 million National Science Foundation grant to explore plant-pathogen interactions in order to create more resistant crops.
On April 30 the museum announced that it will break ground on a 16,000-square-foot addition in spring 2008. A public celebration of the new and original buildings will be held May 6. (May 1, 2007)
Cornell researchers have discovered key properties in coronaviruses that help explain how such viruses as SARS invade their hosts and cross species barriers.
Jazz greats Henry Threadgill, Stanley Crouch and Charlie Haden, painter Fred Brown and others will gather at Cornell Sept. 22-24 to discuss and recapture the spirit of the SoHo art scene in the 1970s. (Sept. 15, 2008)
To determine the best management practices to reduce the impact of phosphorus in the Cannonsville watershed, two Cornell professors have received a $1 million grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.