When NASA today announced its intention to send two rover exploration vehicles to Mars on its previously announced 2003 space shot, it introduced the ambitious venture with a two-minute, computer-generated video that dramatizes the mission with startling clarity and accuracy.
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University's H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been named chairman of the Science Council for CGIAR, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the world's largest publicly funded agricultural research organization.
Kenneth I. Greisen, Cornell professor emeritus of physics and a pioneer in the study of cosmic rays, died March 17 at Hospicare of Ithaca. He was 89. (April 2, 2007)
The Student Insurance Advisory Committee at Cornell University announced today (May 2, 2002) that its Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) will be administered by the Chickering Group for the seventh year in a row. "The continuation of the Chickering contract allows us to provide continuity in coverage for students already on the plan and offer an outstanding value to every student in need of health insurance," said Allen Bova, chair of the committee, which is comprosed of undergraduate and graduate student representatives, university administrators and staff at Gannett: University Health Services. (May 2, 2002)
Astronomers will release today (Dec. 17) the clearest Hubble Space Telescope images of mysterious cosmic spouts - known as FLIERs - emanating from distant objects that once were stars like our sun.
Ithaca High School sophomores and juniors trekked across the Cornell campus for two days in March, visiting the Johnson Art Museum, the Cornell Ceramics Studio and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
On days that parents bicker, both mothers and fathers are much more likely to also have tense days with their children, according to a new Cornell University/University of Arizona study.
Briefs: Alumni trustee nominees: The Cornell Alumni Federation's Committee on Alumni Trustee Nominations has endorsed and nominated four candidates to run for election in 2000 for two seats as alumni trustees on the Cornell Board of Trustees.
Vanessa Ulmer, from Woodstock, N.Y., a Cornell senior majoring in policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, is the recipient of a 2002 Carnegie Junior Fellowship from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellows Program.
Ten artists from this year's reunion classes will exhibit their work at the second annual Cornell University alumni art exhibition June 3 through 14 in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall.