Behind every famous web site, from Amazon to Priceline, is a common-sense idea that somehow no one thought of before. The genius behind the Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell's most-accessed web site, is that its authors correctly guessed there were millions of people out there who needed to know U.S. laws and court decisions.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced on April 27 that he will submit to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees his nomination of Susan A. Henry, dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted conditional registration for the first commercial agricultural use of harpin, a Cornell-discovered protein that induces a plant to mobilize its own defenses against pathogens and insects. The protein also enhances plant growth.
In an effort to increase public appreciation of the importance of mathematics, Cornell's Department of Mathematics is sponsoring its first annual public lecture.
The emerging field of nanobiotechnology could hasten the creation of useful ultra-small devices that mimic living biological systems - if only biologists knew more about nanotechnology and engineers understood more biology.
The Hermanos of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. of Cornell and the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County are hosting the Fourth Annual Latino Street Festival.
The Galileo spacecraft has taken a risky spin through Jupiter's lethal radiation belts to capture the highest-resolution images yet of three of the planet's four innermost moons.