George L. McNew, who was instrumental in bringing the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research, Inc., to its current site on the campus of Cornell University, died Oct. 30, in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 90.
The Big Red men's basketball team touched down in Jacksonville, Fla., March 17, two days prior to its battle with Temple University in the first round of the NCAA tournament. (March 17, 2010)
NEW ORLEANS -- U.S. reliance on foreign oil production could be reduced by chemically mapping the subsurface streams of hydrocarbons, amounting to tens of billions of barrels, hidden well below the Gulf of Mexico, says a Cornell University geologist. These untapped oil and gas reserves can be found by matching hydrocarbon chemical signatures with geologic models for stratigraphic layers under the sea floor, says Lawrence M. Cathles, a professor of chemical geology at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. (March 21, 2003)
Kimberlé Crenshaw '81, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, School of Law and Columbia Law and specialist in race and gender theory, will present a lecture and several other talks and participate in meetings.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 25. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York,
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are inextricably linked, but biochemist and geneticist Ling Qi is working to break that connection, and finding just the right gene could do it. (June 5, 2008)
Do children of cohabitating families fare worse than children in married families? Do children in stepfather families show more symptoms of depression and risk-taking behaviors than children in single-mother families?
Three government professors described what they expected from Donald Trump's foreign policy approach Nov. 10 at the weekly lecture of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.