Forever looking to save money, dairy farmers soon may be able to pocket up to half the energy cost of milking cows thanks to new technology developed by Cornell agricultural engineers that provides energy-efficient ways to control vacuum levels on milking machines.
Peter Eisenman, world-renowned architect and 1955 graduate of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will deliver this year's Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
Howard Evans is going on 85, but beneath the veneer of age lurks a bright, adventurous boy who spent his early years looking under rocks and catching bugs and frogs in New York City's Central Park.
In his Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 11, author Wes Moore called for more leadership and education to save young people from dangerous alternatives like gangs.
Strong solar flares cause Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to fail, Cornell researchers have discovered. Because solar flares -- larger-than-normal radiation "burps" by the sun -- are generally unpredictable, such…
Jed P. Sparks, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development program grant from the National Science Foundation. He will receive five-year funding of $500,000 to support research into foliar uptake of atmospheric nitrogen from the molecular to ecosystems levels. Early Career awards are NSF's most prestigious honor for new faculty members, recognizing and supporting teacher-scholars who are considered most likely to become academic leaders of the 21st century. (April 15, 2003)
President Hunter Rawlings and Cornell alumnus Robert B. Hoffman '58 will join Cornell Outdoor Education in dedicating the new Hoffman Challenge Course on Mount Pleasant in the Town of Dryden, Friday, Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m.
Documents, scientific specimens, works of art and other materials previously available only to a few scholars will be made available worldwide through a new digital imaging program at Cornell. The Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, funded by $2 million in private grants.
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.