The fungus responsible for the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s is back, and could be more threatening than ever. More than 150 years after the famine that took an estimated 1 million lives, a newer virulent strain of the fungus is causing widespread crop devastation in the United States.
New York State Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco has distributed a one-time gift of $100,000 to Cornell's FarmNet program to help provide counseling to farmers affected by January's ice storm.
Those who yearn to spy on their neighbors finally have an excuse -- as well as an opportunity to help science -- by studying cavity-nesting birds. Bird-watchers across North America are teaming up with scientists at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.
Women's History Month is being celebrated at Cornell during March with a series of lectures, performances, seminars, readings, conferences and round-table discussions.
In order to recognize Cornell students who have made strong public service contributions to local community agencies, the Cornell Public Service Center is accepting nominations for the first annual Community Spirit Awards. Up to 30 awards will be given in five categories.
Preschoolers whose families get federal food aid have much healthier diets than low-income children whose families are not getting assistance. And federally aided children are protected from iron and zinc deficiencies, according to a new Cornell study.
The Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute has been named the Best Law School Site by legal.online, a national Internet newsletter, in its Best of the Web awards.
Researchers who work with the incredibly small have long used the scanning tunneling microscope to make pictures of surfaces with such precision that individual atoms appear as bumps. With it, tiny structures can be built by moving one or a few atoms at a time.
Humans' use of antimicrobial spices developed in parallel with food-spoilage microorganisms, Cornell University biologists have demonstrated in a international survey of spice use in cooking. (March 4, 1998)