A prime contractor with national credentials has been selected for the first phase of the Lake Source Cooling project, construction of the transmission pipeline between the Cornell Cayuga Lake.
A Challenge Industries Inc. project and another project that combines the talents of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) and the Dilmun Hill Cornell Student Farm have won 1998 Tompkins County Trust Co.'s Robert S. Smith Awards for community progress and innovation.
Porus Olpadwala, professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP), has been named interim dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning effective July 1.
The Hermanos of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. of Cornell and the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County are hosting the Fourth Annual Latino Street Festival.
Benjamin Widom, Cornell University Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, is honored with a special issue of the journal Molecular Physics. (November 15, 2005)
Matt Pritchard, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, uses satellites to calculate centimeter-scale movements of Earth's surface to learn more about earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides. (Nov. 1, 2007)
Cornell will present a live, interactive Public Broadcasting System (PBS) telecast Wednesday, Jan. 27, addressing the question of how higher education should prepare its students to resolve the legacies of racism and to promote racial reconciliation.
Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns. As a start, governments should end irrigation subsidies that encourage inefficient use of water and instead reward conservation, according the report, "Water Resources: Agriculture, the Environment and Society," published in the February 1997 issue of the journal, BioScience.
A Cornell team called Big Red is about to compete in the world soccer cup finals. But if the team wins, no champagne will be poured on the players, and no sports bras will be displayed. That's because all the players are robots.