The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provided audio and video recordings of birds to producers of the Hollywood comedy 'The Big Year,' starring actors Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. (Oct. 12, 2011)
Workers in poorly ventilated offices are twice as likely to report the symptoms of sick building syndrome as are employees in a well-ventilated environment, a new Cornell study finds.
Renowned writer Margaret Atwood gave a public reading on campus March 29. She also met with students in two small discussion groups the next day to talk about writing and to answer questions. (April 1, 2011)
John Butler Babcock, a Cornell 'foremost benefactor,' was active in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell Plantations and the Johnson Museum.
Donna StockeCornell engineering seniors Michael Stocke, left, and William Culley, who have been fans of miniature golf since childhood, at the preschoolers' putting green they built for the Sciencenter's space-themed miniature…
As pump prices for gasoline set record highs in the United States and crude oil becomes more expensive than it has been almost at any time since the 1991 Gulf War, Cornell University is hosting an engineering conference April 15-17 on Energy Demand and Sustainable Development. The conference will feature talks on the applications and business potential of new technologies in energy and sustainable development by Cornell alumni who are leading energy industry figures and faculty members who are leading the research at the Cornell campus. They will discuss a range of issues involved in formulating national energy policy, including the role of advanced technologies, providing low-cost electricity and the use of ethanol as a fuel. The conference also includes a research poster session by students. (April 8, 2004)
Joseph A. Kahl, an expert on social stratification and a professor of sociology at Cornell from 1969 until his retirement in 1983, died Jan. 1 in Bethesda, Md., at age 86.
Astronomers using the world's most powerful radar system, the massive Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, have obtained radar images of a giant, dog bone-shaped asteroid, an apparent leftover from an ancient, violent cosmic collision.
Cornell and the University of Hawaii today unveiled two lines of papaya that could save the $45 million Hawaiian papaya industry. "SunUp" and "Rainbow" look and taste like their "Sunset" predecessor and are resistant to the papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), which is destroying the Hawaiian crop.
Preventing the "freshman 15" and perhaps even the national obesity epidemic could be as simple as stepping on a scale every morning or getting a little info about big portions in all-you-can-eat dining halls, according to two new studies by David Levitsky at Cornell University. (November 22, 2005)