Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice comes from a mutation in a single gene and that early farmers favored, bred and spread white rice around the world. (Aug. 16, 2007)
Events this week include original dance at the Schwartz Center and student films at Cornell Cinema, a holiday party at the Johnson Museum, and the 2009 Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Organized by Modesto Quiroga, Cornell’s Cosmopolitan Club first met Nov. 10, 1904, in Barnes Hall, with 60 students attending. For the next five decades, the Cosmopolitan Club fostered international awareness and elevated peaceful thoughts.
Twenty years ago, the most popular video games were made by teenage computer gurus in their spare time. With a knack for computer programming and some enthusiasm, anybody could be making the next best game.
Not anymore. The video…
When W. Kent Fuchs becomes Cornell's next provost Jan. 1, among his priorities will be bolstering individual academic departments and encouraging optimism across campus.
Cornell's animal care and use program, which accounts for the well-being of all the animals in departments across campus, has received full accreditation.
Tree diseases, ecosystem disturbance, the crumbling of houses, biomass degradation, carbon cycling and bioremediation of environmental toxins have a lot more in common than first meets the eye.
Cinematic views of both the natural landscape and humans' impact on it will be offered March 5-11 during the 1999 Environmental Film Festival at Cornell University.
Seventeen films and talks by five filmmakers are included in the…
Itamar Rabinovich, the president of Tel Aviv University and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will give two public lectures during his April visit as a Cornell Andrew Dixon White Professor-at-Large.