Local 2300 of the United Auto Workers and Cornell have tentatively reached agreement on a four-year contract that both parties endorse. A ratification vote is scheduled for Thursday evening and Friday morning and afternoon.
A Cornell entomologist has confirmed the summer's first adult Asian long-horned beetles have emerged from their larval stage, and several have been found in hardwood trees in Amityville. The beetle attacks and kills hardwoods like the Norway maple.
Dean Lee Taylor, a Cornell University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a leading researcher and educator in computer-aided design, died at home in Ithaca July 31.
Robert J. "Jeff" Wagenet, Cornell University professor and former chair of the Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences Department, died July 31 of cancer. He was 46. Wagenet came to Cornell in 1982 as an associate professor in the agronomy department.
The Graduate Record Examination does little to predict who will do well in graduate school for psychology and quite likely in other fields as well, according to a new study by Cornell and Yale universities. (Aug. 4, 1997)
U.S. Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.) will present the welcoming address to scientists and foresters attending an agroforestry conference hosted by Cornell University on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 6 p.m., in Trillium Dining Hall, Kennedy Hall, on the Cornell.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University will hold its annual Labor Day celebration Thursday, Aug. 28, at noon in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building.
Native Americas journal, the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Educational Foundation of America.
Growers know that after years of driving heavy farm equipment over wet soil during the planting or harvest seasons, the soil gets compacted. In compacted soil, crops have difficulty growing.
Fusarium head blight, a plant disease also known as wheat scab, has taken aim at America's breadbasket and threatens New York's $30 million wheat-growing industry, according to Cornell plant pathologists.