At 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 1998, Cornell University Provost Don Randel was scheduled to ascend to the top of the library tower to take a sample of the famous pumpkin. At 9:18 a.m. workmen testing the crane accidentally bumped the pumpkin and knocked it off the spire.
A more positive relationship between a franchisee and the hotel parent company can lead to better occupancy rates and happier customers -- not to mention increased profits. That's according to a new study by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service has awarded a Cornell entomologist a $50,000 grant to help eradicate the Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis).
Have serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer replaced Clint Eastwood and John Wayne as American icons? The question may oversimplify things, but it nonetheless goes to the heart of some complex cultural issues.
A campuswide forum on neighborhood relations, including student block parties during Senior Week in May, is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 16, at Cornell. The forum, at 7 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Alice Hanson Cook, a professor emeritus at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and one of the first scholars to study the plight of working women, died Feb. 7 at her home in Ithaca, N.Y.
Rolando Cruz, who spent 11 years on death row and had two murder convictions overturned before he was acquitted at his third trial, will speak at Cornell Law School at 2 p.m. on Feb. 19, Myron Taylor Hall. Cruz's visit to Cornell is sponsored by the Law School's Death Penalty Project and is free and open to the public.
Fellowship grants will increase by 40 percent for students in the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed program that rewards Cornell undergraduates for academic achievement and community service.
Grammy Award-winning artist Richard Smallwood, singing with the choir Vision, will headline the 22nd Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell Feb. 20 to 22.