Cornell gave Class of 1975 graduates in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) much more than vocational training in their respective fields, said eight alumni who were part of a special panel during Reunion Weekend.
In New York City, Dan Huttenlocher, the newly appointed vice provost and founding dean of the CornellNYC Tech campus, discussed Cornell's impact on the technology and entrepreneurial scene. (March 7, 2012)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish a national gene data research center, the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, at Cornell. Judy St. John, an associate deputy administrator with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, made the announcement Jan. 17 in San Diego at the Plant and Animal Genome VII Conference.
After a naming challenge drew 1,100 suggestions from around the world, a Cornell breeder has revealed the secret identities of two new wine grapes - Arandell and Aromella.
Do you know about Frank Dukepoo, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Anna Botsford Comstock or Jim Bell? You will if you close your textbooks, open your eyes and stare straight up at the Ithaca Sciencenter's new Wall of Inspiration to be dedicated on July 27 at 5:30 p.m.
They didn't sing the old Cornell football song "See them plunging down to the goal," but the school's Big Red team became champions of world robot "soccer" today (Aug. 4, 1999) when they beat a highly regarded German team 15-0 in the finals in Stockholm, Sweden.
The World Wide Web is an endless source of information, but it's getting harder and harder to find precisely the right information. Now a Cornell University researcher has come up with a method of searching the web that can return a list of the most valuable sites on a given topic, as well as a list of sites that index the subject.
Travelers who use a hotel's Internet network risk the possibility of data theft, concludes a new study from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. (Oct. 1, 2008)