A team of graduate students helped excavate gardens that thrived 400 years ago in Rajasthan, India, hoping to glean clues for developing sustainable gardens in desert areas worldwide. (Feb. 14, 2007)
Dodos, eugenics, fossils, the human brain and even literary criticism were topics of discussion during Ithaca's second annual Darwin Day celebration, Feb. 8-12. (Feb. 14, 2007)
Cornell researchers are fine-tuning a new technique they developed to rapidly detect a deadly fish virus that has increasingly appeared in the Great Lakes and neighboring waterways. (Feb. 14, 2007)
Two Cornell professors participated in a workshop on professional issues important to faculty at historically black colleges and universities at Spelman College. (Feb. 14, 2007)
President David Skorton is 'inclined' to sign a commitment obligating Cornell to institute a plan to make the campus 'climate neutral,' and he has formed an advisory committee to report by Feb. 23. (Feb. 13, 2007)
Cornell researchers are fine-tuning a new technique they developed to rapidly detect a deadly fish virus that has increasingly appeared in the Great Lakes and neighboring waterways. (Feb. 14, 2007)
Dorothy Cotton, former Southern Christian Leadership Conference education director, will speak on 'Lessons From the Past, Visions for the Future,' Feb. 20. (Feb. 13, 2007)
Franklin Robinson has been reappointed to his fourth five-year term as director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, effective July 1. (Feb. 13, 2007)
Physicists including Cornell's Edwin Salpeter and Kurt Gottfried sent a letter to Congress last week urging measures to restrict the use of nuclear weapons by the United States. (Feb. 13, 2007)