Gasoline leaking from an underground storage tank last week at 925 Warren Road prompted temporary evacuation of one Cornell building and clean-up operations that included removing the tank.
Cornell University, the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and the USDA's Agricultural Research Service will host the Cornell Community Conference on Biological Control, April 11 to 13, 1996, on the Cornell campus.
Dead things can be beautiful, and their preservation can make for a good story. Cornell's Fungi of China collection is the star of a special summer exhibition in Mann Library.
Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, was the keynote speaker at the Second International Conference on Global Land Grabbing at Cornell Oct. 17-19.
Students enrolled in Professional Practice in Mechanical Engineering have spent the semester working with the Child Development Council to find a cost-effective solution for soundproofing. (Dec. 7, 2010)
Dr. Zhong Sheng Sun, an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, has won a prestigious Mallinckrodt Foundation research award for his groundbreaking work.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees, at its January meeting in New York City, approved a 1996-97 budget that calls for a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
Jim Houck, the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and developer and principal investigator for the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 22 for his work on the spectrograph.
Now through Sept. 30, the Johnson Museum is showcasing contemporary, African and Asian artworks acquired in the past five years, many of which have never before been on public display. (Sept. 7, 2007)