Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program will honor this week 36 seniors and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives. (May 21, 2007)
A Cornell horse was the sole DNA donor for the entire horse genome, which has been recently completed with help from the beginning from Doug Antczak, a veterinary immunologist. (Nov. 16, 2009)
The collaborative program will be the home to academic, research, internship and outreach collaborations related to global health issues. (Feb. 9, 2007)
The grants will allow researchers to study the use of cover crops in organic farming and how different organic farming practices affect yields. (June 10, 2010)
Government professor Christopher Anderson, a former semi-pro soccer player, has launched a statistically based soccer blog. He predicts Brazil will take the cup in South Africa this summer. (June 9, 2010)
Hoteliers must do a better job of managing the Internet distribution channels for their hotel rooms, say two Cornell University faculty members in a new report. By 2005 an estimated 1 in 5 hotel bookings will be made online, up from 1 in 12 in 2002, note Bill Carroll and Judy Siguaw, both affiliated with the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. Hotel chain Web sites will control only half of those bookings, say the researchers, with online third-party intermediaries capturing the other half. And that's not counting bookings based on Internet research but made via a phone call. (August 12, 2003)
After deliberating for only 40 minutes, a jury unanimously exonerated Cornell University today (Aug. 23) of all charges in a discrimination suit heard in federal district court in Syracuse. The case, Patricia O'Neill vs. Cornell University, was heard before the Hon. Neal McCurn, senior U.S. District Court judge. (August 23, 2002)
City and regional planning students in a course led by Professor Roger Trancik have given the city of Ithaca a glimpse of the possibilities for the 60-acre redevelopment site in the city's southwest sector. (Feb. 6, 2007)
Michael D. Johnson has been named dean of Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, President Jeffrey S. Lehman and Provost Biddy Martin announced May 3.