The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 11 and 12. The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, March 12, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Even though Diamond, Country Value and Professional brand dog foods have been recalled for containing highly toxic aflatoxins, they have caused an estimated 100 dog deaths in recent weeks, say Cornell veterinarians.
Franklin A. Long, professor emeritus of chemistry at Cornell and the university's vice president for research and advanced studies from 1963 to 1969, died. He was 88.
Cornell Professor Emeritus Keith H. Steinkraus, a specialist in indigenous fermented foods and food microbiology, died Oct. 23. He was 89. (Nov. 13, 2007)
The Alumni Association of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will honor George J. Conneman and Bernard F. Stanton, professors of agricultural economics, with the association's Outstanding Faculty Award at the annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20.
In Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, scientists are artificially inducing disorder where none occurs naturally, in one of the most unusual states of matter ever created – superfluid helium-3. This fluid is in a unique state that allows it to flow without resistance. Understanding its properties in this disordered state could help understand the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.
Cornell has moved into the top leagues of undergraduate environmental research with the dedication of a $927,000 laboratory in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
On July 15, the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), which is affiliated with Cornell, will open a new exhibit on ammonoids, prehistoric sea animals that first appeared in the fossil record 400 million years ago, survived four major extinctions and died out with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Cornell Death Penalty Project Director John Blume discussed the challenges of providing due process to death row inmates with mental impairments, Feb. 24, citing a particular case he's working on. (Feb. 25, 2011)