After several months of construction, engineering and design work, Cornell's 2009 Solar Decathlon house will debut to the public Aug. 27 at the Great New York State Fair. (Aug. 17, 2009)
New York's northern tier and the northern parts of New England could see snow on Saturday and Sunday. But the wet white stuff may not accumulate enough to qualify as the earliest snow in the region, according to climatologists at Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center.
The Cornell-Queen's Executive Master of Business Administration program, now offered to professionals in more than 20 U.S. and Canadian cities, may add its first Latin American site this year. (Feb. 15, 2011)
Cajun pizza with blackened chicken and Tasso ham was just one dish of many served at the Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery on Cornell's North Campus, Sept. 26, for Cornell's Fall Harvest Dinner. (Oct. 3, 2007)
GENEVA, N.Y. -- Robert M. Pool, professor emeritus of viticulture at Cornell, died at his home June 10 after a long illness. Pool's research, extension work and teaching contributed significantly to the science and practice of…
Weill Cornell Medical College has received a $250,000 grant from the Avon Foundation to support a unique new meditation-based stress reduction program for women who have been treated for breast cancer or gynecologic cancer.
The viburnum leaf beetle is eating itself out of house and home in central, western and northern New York state and elsewhere, says Cornell entomologist E. Richard Hoebeke. After devastating large swaths of native viburnum as well as ornamental species in its larval stage this spring, the adult beetle.
New York, NY (March 26, 2004) -- Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have shed light on the function of the synapse -- the gap between nerve cells where information is passed from one cell to the next -- and solved a 30-year puzzle on how exactly nerve cells transmit signals.The finding may one day help determine what goes wrong in ailments like Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy, said Dr. Timothy Ryan, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.
The 2000 census showed that 56 million people live in rural America, accounting for about 20 percent of the U.S. population. Rural America is going through substantial change. A new book, Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century, examines rural people and communities and the disadvantages they suffer in quality-of-life measures.
Daylight-saving time will start three weeks earlier this year, on Sunday, March 11, and end one week later, on Sunday, Nov. 4, and most Windows and Mac computers will require an operating system update. (March 7, 2007)