Fifty Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars presented their work at the annual Senior Expo in the Biotechnology Building April 14. (April 19, 2011)
Two historically fierce rivals -- the Cornell and Boston University hockey teams -- face off at Madison Square Garden Nov. 24. The game will be broadcast online for a fee and via satellite. (Nov. 20, 2007)
In the late 1840s, Ezra Cornell was discouraged working in the budding telegraph business. He was rarely home and the business was chaotic. (March 7, 2007)
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Manhattan on Friday, April 11, instead of Thursday, April 10. The change was made so that university trustees and administrators can support the Cornell men's hockey team in the national semifinal Frozen Four game at noon Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y. The committee will hold a brief open session when it meets at 12:15 p.m., April 11, in the Fall Creek Room at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings and an update on the New York state budget. (April 8, 2003)
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Women's Voices From Union Square, an original musical play about the 14th Street square's role in American labor history, will be performed in New York City, May 1-12, in honor of Labor History Month. The play's author is Dorothy Fennell, a Cornell University labor historian, and its producer is the New York City extension office of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Performances, which feature several off-Broadway actors, begin May Day (May 1) at the Tenement Museum's Theater on Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan and continue there and at other venues in New York City through Mother's Day (May 12). (April 25, 2002)
For the first time, astronomers have tracked individual moons nestled in debris orbiting a planet. That could give scientists new clues about how planets grow around stars in young solar systems. (July 8, 2010)
The first Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference, held Jan. 29-31 in Washington, D.C., gathered alumni volunteers from Cornell Clubs, classes, associations and regions. (Feb. 4, 2010)
GENEVA, N.Y. -- The sexual chemistry of the German cockroach has baffled scientists for years. Meanwhile the insect, which is one of the most serious food and residential pests worldwide, has been busily fouling up the planet essentially unhindered. Blattella germanica plagues humans in homes, apartments, restaurants, supermarkets, hospitals and any buildings where food is stored, prepared or served. The cockroach is notoriously resilient and difficult to control.
Cornell received a Forrester Groundswell Award Nov. 19 for the globalrust.org website, which provides tools for people fighting the virulent new diseases of wheat that threaten world food security. (Nov. 29, 2010)