Speaking at Cornell April 19, Colby Bruno, managing attorney at the Victim Rights Law Center, stressed the importance of policies to encourage victims of sexual assault at colleges to come forward. (April 25, 2011)
One way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by the end of the century is by setting up fields of air-capture devices that absorb the gas, according to a Cornell paper. (Oct. 5, 2010)
For onion growers battling botrytis leaf blight, a crop-decimating disease, relief is on the way. Cornell University plant scientists have breached the plant's tough sexual barrier to cross two species and develop a first draft of a botrytis-resistant onion. The way is now paved for scientists to bring the onion to commercial quality and, perhaps, make it resistant to other diseases as well. Martha Mutschler, Cornell professor of plant breeding, will unveil her research team's results Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. at the 2004 Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo in the Riverside Convention Center's Bausch Room, Rochester, N.Y. Her research collaborators were Jim Lorbeer, Cornell professor of plant pathology; research associate Edward Cobb; and graduate student Pablo A. Goldschmied. (February 9, 2004)
"At three a.m. on a windy late-November night, Jenny Walker woke in her historic house in an historic New England town, and sensed from the slope of her mattress and the chill of the flowered percale sheets that Wilkie Walker.
Photos taken by Cornell Abroad students offer a window into some of the exotic and enriching experiences they encountered this past year while studying in one of about 40 countries. (April 5, 2007)
Raymond Sheldrake, professor emeritus of crop science and developer of widely used cultivation materials and techniques, died Oct. 21 in Sun City, Fla. (Oct. 29, 2008)
How do the people who run the world's best hotels and restaurants scout out new talent? They come to Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and take careful notes.
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture titled "Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Why Culture is Not a Disappearing Object" at Cornell University Friday, Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.