NEW YORK -- Two biofuel projects coordinated by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) with support from the Northeast SUN Grant Center for Excellence at Cornell University will begin this summer in New York City. Their goal? A real-world assessment of the viability of biofuels both as a readily available resource and as a replacement fuel for heating buildings and powering diesel vehicles.
Hotels and restaurants now can accurately compute all the costs associated with losing and replacing an employee, thanks to a free Web-based management tool from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
Cornell's President Hunter Rawlings and protesters fighting a proposed West Campus parking lot in the Redbud Woods reached a truce Monday, June 18, 72 hours after a chain-link fence was erected around the two-acre site.
Cornell and the Redbud Woods protesters have reached an agreement on building the replacement parking lot on West Campus. The university will assume additional responsibilities as a result of this agreement and is satisfied that the resolution of this situation is a positive development for all concerned.
Cornell scientists have developed a rapid, less costly and sensitive new technique for detecting group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause scarlet fever. Details will be announced July 18 at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans.
The 176-space parking lot planned at the intersection of University Ave., Willard Way and Lake Street, on the site known as Redbud Woods, is part of Cornell's West Campus Residential Initiative (WCRI). The development of the WCRI began about five years ago, and from the beginning, addressing parking needs in the West Campus area was part of the initiative.
Cornell University Police began issuing citations for trespassing this morning (July 15) to protesters in the Redbud Woods area who want to prevent the construction of a 176-space parking lot on the site, adjacent to the West Campus student residences. One protester was arrested for disorderly conduct.
In a meeting with media Cornell president Hunter Rawlings announced that the university has decided to go ahead with its plan for the controversial West Campus Residential Initiative parking lot in the area dubbed Redbud Woods by protestors.