Literally digging up the dirt, Cornell researchers have found that burgeoning deer populations forever alters a forest’s natural future by disrupting the soil’s seed banks.
President David J. Skorton has been named the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. He will continue all the duties and activities of his office at Cornell through June 30, 2015.
Events this week include plays about love and sexuality, films about math and physics, Concerto Competition winners in concert, and a Community-Supported Agriculture Fair.
Cornell students examined Philadelphia’s Center City to disentangle traffic and create a sustainable, sociable economy for the city decades into the future. In a design competition, it won first place.
Two studies in the current issue of the International Journal of Wine Business Research point to service in winery tasting rooms being the most important factor in boosting wine sales at wineries.
While researching a book, faculty member George Hutchinson discovered the memoir of a woman who mingled with famous writers and artists in the 1920s and '30s, unbound by race or class.
In his first work of fiction, Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology, has published his first fiction e-book. “Beginnings” is an eclectic collection of narratives, poems and essays.