The IDEA Center, the life sciences business incubator, is now the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences, thanks to the McGovern family's gift of $7.5 million. (Oct. 22, 2008)
Events this week include a conversation with athletes-turned-politicians Bill Bradley and Ken Dryden '70, Alloy Orchestra at Cornell Cinema, Jay Walker '77 on innovation, and a forum on poverty policy. (Sept. 3, 2009)
Cornell just opened its new $6 million Biofuels Research Laboratory, where Cornell scientists and students from across the university are examining sustainable and economical biofuel production. (April 1, 2009)
Cornell researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that helps convert nitrogen-based fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas.
A grass-pellet stove has been installed in the fireplace of Cornell's Big Red Barn -- the first public demonstration of such technology in New York state. (March 6, 2007)
The Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo featured 18 teams of elementary school students from upstate New York who displayed their working LEGO models. (Feb. 1, 2010)
Bird experts believed for years that once a bird learned songs, the calls stayed relatively fixed throughout their lives, but a new study of loons, streamlined fish-eating water birds, calls those beliefs into question. (March 7, 2006)
Pulling out from the Battery Maritime Building in downtown Manhattan, the ferry to Governors Island rose and fell on the waves with 24 inner-city teenagers on board, while an orange Staten Island Ferry lumbered toward the Statue…