The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $618,857 to the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell to preserve local and state agricultural literature on microfilm.
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.
Acting on an anonymous tip, Cornell Police have charged two freshman students with reckless endangerment in connection with an April Fools' Day prank in which the students allegedly placed a dummy at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge.
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur will give a poetry reading Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
Charles Walcott, professor of neurobiology and behavior, has been appointed to a two-year term as director of the Cornell Division of Biological Sciences.
Going digital is easier said than done. Especially for librarians, archivists and museum staff in charge of converting large, complex collections into digitized images that can be accessed online around the globe.
Cornell evolutionary biologist Paul Sherman teaches his Darwinian medicine class hoping to inform premedical and pre-veterinary seniors about human evolution in ways that add to traditional medical education. (December 07, 2005)
The scholarly impact of the book is not reflected in its size.
Measuring 77 square inches and bound by wooden boards covered in blind-stamped leather, "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" changed the way we view the universe…
Avian flu experts emphasized the importance of dialogue and coordination among people in public health, animal health and wildlife management as essential preparation for a possible avian influenza pandemic, during a conference organized by Cornell.