ITHACA, N.Y. -- After thousands of hours of investigation, consultation, discussion and deliberation over 20 months, a committee of university and community representatives has recommended a waste-management plan for Cornell University and its College of Veterinary Medicine that would phase out the need for incineration. The Cornell/Community Waste Management Advisory Committee will hold a press briefing at the Community Dispute Resolution Center office, 120 W. State St., Ithaca, at 3 p.m. today. Don Smith, dean of the veterinary college, as well as other university officials and members of the committee, will be available at the briefing.
Cornell University's Lake Source Cooling project has been honored with an Award of Special Recognition and Merit from the Ecological Society of America.
China has become the world's manufacturing center, receiving more foreign direct investment than any other country. For the past two decades, China has enjoyed an "economic miracle" with more than 8 percent growth per year.
Cornell's first Green Report, unveiled at a May 7 panel discussion on sustainability, outlines the university's ongoing efforts to reduce its environmental footprint. (May 7, 2007)
A Cornell researcher has found that people who had been exposed to prenatal toxins and develop later-life diseases have in common an imbalanced immune system and hyperinflammatory responses. (May 2, 2007)
Cornell Police received a report this morning from a Forest Home Drive resident at 7:29 a.m. of a smell of diesel fuel and an oil slick on Beebe Lake on the Cornell campus.
Gene R. Wheeler, director of finance and administrative operations in the College of Human Ecology, Cornell, has been named assistant dean for finance and administration in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
One of the most-accessed legal Web sites in the world just got better. The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School is now offering free details on high-profile cases before they are argued and ruled on by the Supreme Court, including one on medical marijuana (Ashcroft v. Raich), another on restrictions on interstate alcohol sales (Granholm v. Heald) and a third on the constitutionality of executing young people who were under 18 when they committed a capital crime (Roper v. Simmons). Written in an easily understandable style for everyone from journalists to teachers to bright high school students, the analyses of upcoming Supreme Court cases are put together by a team of Cornell Law School students. The goal is to help people who are neither lawyers nor legal scholars grasp the issues at stake and why they are important. (December 16, 2004)
Cornell Cooperative Extension and National 4-H Week will be celebrated from Sept. 30 through Oct. 7 on the Cornell campus and at events around Tompkins County. This year's theme is "Strengthening the Economic and Social Vitality of Communities."