From "million-dollar landscapes" to weeds worth removing, Cornell Plantations addresses a range of horticultural topics with its fall 2000 series of Wednesday night lectures, beginning Sept. 6.
Native Americas, the hemispheric journal published by the Akwe:kon Press at Cornell University's American Indian Program, won seven national media awards.
When Monsanto needed a fast solution to building space for 40 researchers, it erected a tent. Or, more accurately, it turned to a temporary tent like structure that took only 28 days to erect.
Five assistant professors in Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have received Faculty Early Career Development Program grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In many recent large earthquakes - such as in Northridge, Calif., in 1994 and in Kobe, Japan, in 1995 - some of the most alarming damage was to buried natural gas pipelines, most of them curving along rights-of-way using vulnerable elbow joints.
Cornell has been named a "College of the Year" by TIME magazine and The Princeton Review for its successful and innovative writing program, the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Michael Lynn worked his way through college hustling for tips as a waiter, then turned the study of tipping into an academic career. This latest study finds that while tips are rewards for services rendered, there remains an element of unpredictability, even mystery, about tipping that makes it an unreliable measure of server performance.