Based on the success of a $1.4 million program launched in 2001, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Cornell University an additional $1,785,000 over five years to continue postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and social sciences.
Police are investigating the death of Cornell freshman Matthew Tyler Pearlstone on Friday, March 17, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
"There's not much we're prepared to say at this point. There is no cause of…
David Sibley, a renowned birder, visited Cornell's Lab of Ornithology last year to view the blurry April 2004 video of an ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct for 60 years. The four-second video is the cornerstone…
Americans suffer from some 76 million cases of food-borne diseases (FBDs) each year. And some of the associated bacteria can have lasting health consequences, according to Kathryn Boor.
The following is an abridged version of an open letter that was sent to President Hunter R. Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin:
To the editor:
As the committee charged by your office to advise Cornell's administration on the…
The following is an abridged version of an open letter that was sent to President Hunter R. Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin:
To the editor:
As the committee charged by your office to advise Cornell's administration on the…
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
Cornell graduate students and families living at the Hasbrouck Apartments are working with Campus Life to prepare for the arrival of undergraduates to the complex.
To the editor:
Your article on campus construction ("FAQ: How a busy construction season, from Thurston bridge to Hoy garage, will affect traffic and parking on campus," March 16 Chronicle) was useful. However, it focused mainly…
Christopher K. Ober, the Francis Norwood Bard Professor of Materials Engineering at Cornell, has been named the winner of the 2006 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Applied Polymer Science. The award honors him for "his…