U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
Cornell President David J. Skorton will give his first Commencement address, and the Convocation speaker will be CNN television journalist Soledad O'Brien. (May 21, 2007)
The Cornell Political Forum is sponsoring 'Governing Divided Communities,' Thursday, Oct. 4, a discussion featuring James Perkins Jr., mayor of Selma, Ala., and Alan Cohen, mayor of Ithaca.
Los Angeles artist Jessica Rath worked with Professor Susan Brown to use Cornell apple trees as a basis for a photography exhibit in Pasadena next year. (June 16, 2011)
ProvidedThe left image shows the B ring, Cassini Division, A ring and F ring, with the location of the propeller-shaped disturbances indicated. The center image is a closer view of the A ring, showing the radial locations where…
OMAAn artist's rendering of a view of Milstein Hall, connecting Sibley and Rand halls.
Milstein Hall, the newest building of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), will be many things for many people: a…
If you want to manage your mint plants, tend your tomatoes, know why you should mow your grass high or how to cultivate cabbage correctly, then register for the first annual Cornell Gardening Day, March 23, from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., at DeWitt Middle School, Ithaca. The event is sponsored by the Cornell University's Department of Horticulture, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Tompkins County and Cornell Plantations. The day-long program will feature more than 30 lectures and workshops, plus a resource fair and free soil pH testing. Classes will be taught by faculty at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as by staff from Cornell Plantations and CCE educators, staff and master gardeners. Topics will include landscaping with perennials, shrubs and bulbs; growing fruits and vegetables; garden photography; water gardens; fertilizers; wildlife damage control; mulches; composting; soils and soil creatures; propagation; and pest management. (January 29, 2002)
The Class of 2012 Council has gotten the entire Ivy League to join forces to fundraise for philanthropy for first time. So far, the Ivy League has raised $10,000 for Save the Children. (June 10, 2011)
The finding, published in Science today, makes Saturn’s rings one of the few locations where scientists have been able to observe these impacts in process.