Susanna Throop, a May 2000 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a 1996 graduate of Newfield High School, has been awarded the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Trust Scholarship inaugurated this year.
A Cornell professor of music and a former Cornell visiting professor of anthropology are among the recipients of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awards announced this month. James Webster, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Music, will receive $30,000.
A decade ago, when some of Wolfgang Sachse's graduate students began to dance tango, they invited him to watch. He brought his camera. "I was intrigued by what I saw: the connection between two persons moving beautifully through…
The annual Cornell Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. hosted by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
James A. Johnson, chairman and CEO of Johnson Capital Partners, a private investment company, will speak at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management Nov. 16 on "Corporate Responsibility in the 21st Century."
Alas, the moon is not for winter sports. Never mind the difficulty of a triple axel in a bulky spacesuit (though the diminished gravity might help) -- ice, it turns out, is hard to come by up there.
'Mind and Memory,' a popular public lecture series and undergraduate course, has received a $5,000 grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The grant will help support the 'Mind and Memory' series, directed by Diane Ackerman under the aegis of the Society for the Humanities.
Cornell, Indian and Thai agricultural students toured greenhouses and field trials at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, where the pest-resistant eggplant that Cornell researchers helped develop is being tested.
Grow grass, not for fun but for fuel. Burning grass for energy has been a well-accepted technology in Europe for decades. But not in the United States. Yet burning grass pellets as a biofuel is economical, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable, says a Cornell University forage crop expert.
The New Visions program gives high school seniors an on-campus opportunity to explore careers in agriculture and environmental sciences. (June 11, 2007)