A strategic conference of business executives and academic researchers in travel, tourism and hospitality will convene in New York City Thursday, March 7.
ITHACA, N.Y. --Many coastal and large urban areas in the Northeast are facing their worst precipitation deficits (July through February) since official climatological record-keeping began more than a century ago, say experts at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. The severest drought faces those communities experiencing at least a 15-inch precipitation deficit since last July, including most of New Jersey, southeastern New York state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the climate center says. (March 1, 2002)
Cornell will recognize the generosity and vision of the Milstein family at a May 24 naming ceremony for Paul Milstein Hall, the planned expansion of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (May 23, 2007)
Events this week include J.P. Sniadecki's new film on trains and transformation in China, book talks on Project Puffin and renewing cities after natural disaster, and Cayuga's Waiters' Spring Fever.
Six Cornell researchers will receive grants totaling more than
$3 million as part of the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.
For months the growers have listened carefully to the agricultural advice of the Cornell Cooperative Extension agents. Now, it is harvest time at one of New York City's most-advanced farms: the hydroponic rooftop garden of the High School for Environmental Studies on West 56th Street.
A new set of simple Web and iPad applications from Cornell gives New York state school districts access to data to create projects for decision making. (June 27, 2012)
The Shelburne Playhouse, one of the Catskill Mountains' remaining jewels from the golden age of small resort hotels, was repaired and stabilized by a volunteer group of Cornell historic preservation planning (HPP) students and alumni -- along with some local helpers.
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson and the Spiritual Voices out of New York City will headline the 28th annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell University, Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall on campus. Admission for the performance is $4. Saturday's concert is just one of the features of this year's festival -- Friday, Feb. 20, to Sunday, Feb. 22 -- which include a three-on-three basketball tournament, the concert by the featured artists, the annual Mass Choir and a Sunday service. (February 16, 2004)