This Decade of Challenge article looks at Cornell's strategies to minimize the dangers of student alcohol and drug use, with education, enforcement, health services and other initiatives.
Growers know that after years of driving heavy farm equipment over wet soil during the planting or harvest seasons, the soil gets compacted. In compacted soil, crops have difficulty growing.
Two prominent entomologists, one from Cornell, warn that three recent studies on the effects of genetically engineered crops have distorted the debate about engineered crops and that this could have "profound consequences" for science and public policy.
Philip E. Lewis, acting dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, has been nominated to serve a five-year term as dean of the college beginning July 1996.
Using the radar systems at the National Science Foundation's recently upgraded radio/radar telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California, astronomers have obtained the most-detailed pictures yet of an asteroid.
Women students will have a unique opportunity to network with some of Cornell's most distinguished alumnae during a three-day conference on campus sponsored by the President's Council of Cornell Women April 26-28.
Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly colored male animals are advertising something of importance to their prospective mates. Should the female assume the gaudiest male has parasite-resistance genes that will benefit her offspring?
Barbara Hope Cooper, the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at Cornell University, died Aug. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center here. She was 45.
Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and social achievements, the Green Revolution saved millions from starvation in the 1960s and 70s. Now, faced with increasing population growth, environmental degradation and problems of hunger, Cornell University scientists believe the future is bleak.
Cornell's computer scientists and librarians will form an unusual partnership to develop better ways to manage and ensure the integrity of documents and other data in the digital library of the future.