Natalie Mahowald, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, will help develop the chapter on the physical science basis for climate change. (Sept. 20, 2010)
From 1980 to 2000, the foreign-born Hispanic, and largely Mexican, population in New York state grew significantly. In a study just released, two Cornell University researchers claim this growing population of immigrants can potentially contribute to community development in upstate New York, where population loss and economic stagnation or decline have been pervasive for decades. "The growing number of Hispanics is related to the changes in the agricultural workforce in New York and nationwide. Increasing numbers of these farm workers and their families settle in upstate New York communities where they work and then face various challenges and opportunities as they seek to become integrated in the social and economic life of the community," noted Max Pfeffer, Cornell professor of development sociology who co-authored the study "Immigrants and the Community" with Pilar A. Parra, a research associate in Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences. (December 21, 2004)
Cornell plant scientists, working with state and federal officials, have detected plum pox virus (PPV) for the first time in New York state on trees from an orchard in Niagara County.
The past week was one of remembrance and continued resolve on the issue of gorge safety, with a Sept. 22 open forum and a Sept. 25 memorial service for Nathaniel Rand '12, who drowned July 2. (Sept. 29, 2011)
James Boodley, professor emeritus of floriculture and ornamental horticulture and a potting mix pioneer, died Feb. 12 in Kent, Ohio. Cornell Mix transformed the greenhouse industry in the 1960s.
Roald Hoffmann, Geoffrey Coates, Garnet Chan and Paul Chirik have received awards from the American Chemical Society for outstanding contributions to the field. (March 16, 2009)
Gifts totaling $12 million will establish three endowed senior professorships in the humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, with support from an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation challenge grant. (Dec. 1, 2010)
Cornell researchers have developed a tool that can predict - and thereby perhaps prevent - flash stock market crashes, such as the one that occurred May 6, 2010. (Dec. 1, 2010)
This summer, students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Lab, Cornell's marine field station, discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles of Shoals. (Aug. 27, 2009)