Thanks to a technique known as genetic mapping, Cornell scientists have for the first time located genetic factors that allow significant increases in yields of rice grown by poor farmers trying to produce crops in hardscrabble conditions.
'The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls' (1997) by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of human development and women's studies at Cornell, has been chosen one of 'Choice's' Outstanding Academic Books.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has approved an assertive $100,000 initiative aimed at enhancing the diversity of the student community by improving the recruitment of underrepresented minority students, university officials have announced.
The science of economics explains how money behaves (as if rational people were handling it) but not the details of how people behave around money (sometimes unwisely). That's why we need the emerging science called behavioral economics, says
Comedienne Paula Poundstone has rescheduled her show at Cornell for Sunday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Tickets for the original, cancelled show of Dec. 7, 1998, will be honored for the Feb. 7 event.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) is holding a series of public meetings to present fare structure recommendations that are scheduled to go into effect by the end of this summer.
Want to know the slope of that hill on the north forty? Or the soil conditions there? What about the stream that flows through the middle -- how much water flows and what's its chemical composition?
The supply, quality and protection of water resources will be critical in the 21st century and will present Washington, aided by the nation's reservoir of academic brain power - particularly in land-grant colleges - with a "grand national challenge," a Cornell environmentalist warns.
It may sound funny, but it's true. John Cleese, British writer-comedian-actor and former rector of St. Andrews University in Scotland, will make two public appearances as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large during his first official visit to the Cornell.