The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a one-year approval for a novel plant protectant that has been tested at Cornell University as a seed coating for onions. This new treatment promises to help save New York's onion crop, providing that it can gain full approval for use beyond 1996.
In a statement, Cornell President David Skorton said that the choice of Provost Martin as chancellor of UW-Madison 'is a source of great pride for the entire Cornell community and a great day for Wisconsin.' (May 28, 2008)
On March 30, Jewish and African-American students ate dinner together and talked about religion and culture at Ithaca's St. James AME Zion Church as part of the 'Breaking Bread' diversity series.
The Honorable Elena Poptodorova, the ambassador from the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States, is visiting the Cornell campus this week to deliver public lectures and meet with community members, university students, faculty members and administrators.
Cornell's first president, Andrew D. White, and his successors, saw medicine as a crucial university offering, and courses in the medical sciences were first offered in 1878. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Mike Kelley, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell, has been named to the new position of associate dean for professional development in the College of Engineering.
In August Richard Swedberg will begin a one-year term as chair of the American Sociological Association's theory section, and Dan Lichter will step down from his post as chair of the ASA's family section. (March 25, 2009)
In 'Law and Order: Elizabethan Unit' Sept. 20, real actors and real attorneys played parts in the trial of King Lear v. Goneril and Regan, part of Weill Cornell's Humanities and Medicine Series.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Frederick A. Rogers, Cornell's senior vice president and chief financial officer, announced Dec. 9, 1999 that he will be stepping down from that position to assume the presidency of a new Internet company that will serve the education community.