Carving knives may be the least of threats to pumpkins this Halloween, because a pumpkin-destroying disease called bacterial wilt, spread by striped or spotted cucumber beetles, has been found in the upper Midwest and the Northeast, says a Cornell plant pathologist.
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and a Democratic primary candidate for president in 2004, will address Cornell University's annual Senior Convocation for graduating students and their families, Saturday, May 28.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) will host a National Transit Institute Fellows Workshop and the Federal Transit Administration's Advanced Public Transportation Systems Mobile Showcase.
Alumni from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are invited to participate in the second Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Forum on Saturday, April 18. More than two dozen classes will be available for the Cornell alumni and their guests.
A more positive relationship between a franchisee and the hotel parent company can lead to better occupancy rates and happier customers -- not to mention increased profits. That's according to a new study by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
The $30,000 awards recognize outstanding tenured faculty early in their careers for distinguished research and scholarly achievements, combined with their continuing commitment to Cornell. (April 17, 2008)
Virtually all area residents who expressed an opinion during the open session of Ithaca's Common Council favor temporary fences on the East Hill bridges to help prevent suicides. (July 16, 2010)
Believe it or not, there are some problems computers just can't solve - at least not quickly enough to be of any use. Many of them are of the type computer scientists call "combinatorial" in which the computer has to try out a vast number of different combinations.
Two researchers at Cornell University are predicting that high-temperature superconductivity could exist in a class of exotic materials containing silver and fluorine.