The Cornell Tradition program at Cornell has honored 12 seniors for their outstanding demonstration of the program's values of work, service and scholarship, with $2,500 awards.
Cornell's solar house -- featuring a canopy of steel scaffolding surrounding the structure -- is being packed up for the trip to the international Solar Decathlon competition, Oct. 11-19. (Sept. 26, 2007)
India, which has cornered the world economy's virtual backroom, now will bring leading American science, engineering and computing faculty from Cornell and other top colleges to teach students at Amrita University and, thanks to EduSat and emerging distance-learning strategies, other Indian institutions of higher learning.
Returning to campus from expeditions in the forests of South and Central America, a team of Cornell undergraduate science students is applying modern analytical techniques to learn the chemistry behind the nature-based medicinals that work for native peoples.
Applying the 'polluter pays' principle, a Cornell ecologist and author suggests a way to improve the environmental sustainability of agriculture: Levy taxes according to food-chain ranking so that products with the worst environmental impact cost the most.
Cornell graduate students in the Department of Science and Technology Studies will host a conference on "Technology and Identity" April 16-18 in Hans Bethe Auditorium, Clark Hall.
Ithaca's official sister city, Elios Proni, Greece, will play host in October to 10 travelers from Ithaca, who will attempt to bring a taste of their twin city back home to share.
For the virulent H5N1 strain of avian flu to establish itself on U.S. soil via wild birds, a string of events must come together, none of which can be predicted, according to experts at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.
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