Researchers have developed genetically engineered orange trees to fight a deadly bacterial citrus disease in Florida. The trees will soon be put to the test.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Executive Committee of Cornell University's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 11:30 a.m. April 18, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session, for the meeting's first 20 minutes, will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Provost Don M. Randel on the status of the state budget; and a recommendation on the 1997-98 capital budget request for the statutory colleges.
On Nov. 3, the Senior Review, an advisory panel to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, recommended a 24 percent cut in funding over the next three years for Arecibo Observatory, which…
Cornell's animal care and use program, which accounts for the well-being of all the animals in departments across campus, has received full accreditation.
Even with a frosty flourish to ring out the year, 1998 was the warmest year in recorded history in the northeastern United States, according to the climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Paul M. Kintner Jr., professor of electrical and computer engineering and head of the Global Positioning Systems Laboratory at Cornell, died Nov. 16 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. (Nov. 16, 2010)
By tweaking a gene in the mouse genome, scientists are creating animal models of Huntington's disease that mimic human Huntington's and may lead to effective treatments for this killer illness.
Melissa Hines, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years.
Local and state government officials are learning that factors such as skilled labor, strong infrastructure and good schools provide more incentive than tax subsidies for businesses to start up or relocate to New York, according to a Cornell report by graduate researchers delivered on May 29.
Cornell's Schwartz Center 2009-10 season begins in September with 'A Servant of Two Masters,' Carlo Goldini's 1753 romantic comedy filled with physical humor and identity switching. (Feb. 12, 2009)