With pencil-shaped, chocolate-covered cookies called Stir-Ins, which add flavor to coffee, Cornell University students on Monday (June 24) won the national championship at the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual student food product competition.
In the first 6 1/2 days of December, more than 100 high-temperature records were broken or tied in the major cities of the northeastern United States. With the average temperature between Dec. 1 and Dec. 6 at about 15 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
NASA's Contour space mission and Cornell are challenging students and their teachers in the United States to participate in the spacecraft's forthcoming exploration of comets.
Freeman Hrabowski, a leading expert on improving the academic performance of African-American students in math and science, will be in Ithaca Sunday, Nov. 20, to deliver a Sage Chapel address at Cornell University and be the featured participant in a Community Forum on Education and Society in downtown Ithaca. (November 16, 2005)
Cornell Theory Center (CTC) announced today, Oct. 26, that the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), a consortium of universities led by Cornell University, has received $10 million for research.
Although bathing gets more difficult with age and declining health, the elderly can largely compensate for their loss of function with grab bars and other bathroom devices, according to a new Cornell study.
Almost the entire permanent collection -- more than 27,000 objects -- of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will be made available for viewing on the World Wide Web over the next two years.
The EMBA - or executive option to the MBA program at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management - allows working professionals to earn a master's degree in business administration in just two years, without a break in service from their regular jobs or a loss in salary.
Thanks in part to an aggressive new fellowship program, Cornell's Graduate School enrollment shows a healthy increase this fall, boosted primarily by a big jump in doctoral students in the physical sciences and engineering.