More than 150 people attended the July 11-14 conference, which was aimed to help define how agricultural educators might address the growing need for sustainable practices in today's environmentally challenged world. (July 17, 2007)
Paul Sawyer, professor of English, launched the Plantations' Fall Lecture Series with a talk about John Ruskin, the 'first ecologist,' Aug. 29. (Sept. 4, 2012)
The Control Moment Gyroscope Research Team has returned from its reduced-gravity flight at NASA in Houston. The students boarded the 'vomit comet' to test their robotic arm, powered by gyroscopes. (July 16, 2007)
Cornell President David J. Skorton has been elected the incoming vice chairman of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF). As vice chair, he will become the chair after a two-year term. Skorton was elected by BHEF's membership…
Good news for the New York state agricultural industry: family farms are being helped, thanks in large part to FarmNet, a state-funded, Cornell University-based program. The number of financial distress calls to the program has markedly dropped, but the number of financial planning requests has increased, according to the annual statistics released by the program. There was also a substantial increase in the number of calls, overall.
Michael W. Crooke, chief executive of the outdoor clothing company Patagonia Inc. and its parent Lost Arrow Corp., will give a talk at Cornell April 24 at 5 p.m. in B-45 Warren Hall.
Cornell Professor Stephen J. Ceci is the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society. Established in 1996 to honor Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development at Cornell.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has received a substantial increase in revenues from the sale of privately held stock that had been held by Cornell as a gift from the estate of George and Mary Rockwell.
Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program has announced a new computer-based training program for retail food store managers and associates.
Have you ever wondered how to use yellow sticky cards to count whiteflies in a geranium greenhouse? Or, the best way to use fava bean plants to spot the presence of virus-carrying thrips?