The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $1.5 million for a new facility for research on multiscale problems in materials science and molecular biology.
In recent days New York state has faced a major outbreak of illness, and a fatality, caused by the E. coli O157:H7 bacterium. The bacterium is believed to have been spread through infected well water.
The distinguished teaching career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie will be honored this month with a tribute, simply called "Readings for Alison Lurie." The event, sponsored by Cornell's Department of English and Program of Creative Writing.
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.
Six Cornell University seniors, all women, went to New York City this past summer hoping to learn how to crack Wall Street's infamous glass ceiling — that invisible, impermeable surface their mothers merely scratched.
Test question: An elevator passenger is joined by three others who immediately turn to face the side of the car. Struggling to resist the pressures of conformity, the first passenger eventually joins the rest because?
Cornell alumnus Robert G. Laughlin, whose research at Procter & Gamble Co. has contributed to a number of well-known household products, has donated $2.5 million to endow a new named professorship in the university's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected two commercial dairies as producing the highest quality milk in New York state. The annual selection is tied to the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program, sponsored by the New York Milk Promotion Order.
Native Americas, a journal published by the Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, won six media awards at the 1999 Native American Journalists Association's annual awards held in Seattle in July.