ITHACA, N.Y. -- After thousands of hours of investigation, consultation, discussion and deliberation over 20 months, a committee of university and community representatives has recommended a waste-management plan for Cornell University and its College of Veterinary Medicine that would phase out the need for incineration. The Cornell/Community Waste Management Advisory Committee will hold a press briefing at the Community Dispute Resolution Center office, 120 W. State St., Ithaca, at 3 p.m. today. Don Smith, dean of the veterinary college, as well as other university officials and members of the committee, will be available at the briefing.
Nominations are being accepted through Friday, June 26, for the annual Community Service Awards presented to companies located in the Cornell Business & Technology Park (CBTP) in the village of Lansing.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 25. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York,
Rebecca Quinn Morgan of Los Altos Hills, Calif., has been elected to the Cornell University Board of Trustees as a trustee at-large for a four-year term, effective July 1, 1998.
In Japan, where typical houses are less than half the size of average American houses but cost two to three times more and maintain value for only about 20 years before they become worthless and are demolished, home builders are turning to Cornell.
Charles W. Wolfram, the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School, has been named interim dean of the Law School effective Aug. 1.
Classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has become a cultural icon whose image and music are used to sell everything from cars to chocolates. Can there be anything new to say about him or his music?
The influential Dutch Bulb Program in the United States is moving to Cornell from Raleigh, N.C. The selection announcement notes that the move is a tribute to Cornell's extremely long and prestigious horticultural tradition.
An exclusive research and license agreement was announced today (June 14) by the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), Ithaca, N.Y., and Axis Genetics, PLC, Cambridge, England.
Ever since the invention in 1982 of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which can see single atoms, scientists have been trying to use the instrument to examine the bonds that hold atoms together in molecules.