Cornell Cooperative Extension volunteers collected more than 5 tons of compostable materials as part of an expanded composting program at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance.
NEW YORK -- A capacity crowd filled the Weill Auditorium for a recent Career Pathways presentation, "Walking the Academic Road." A panel of junior faculty from the Weill Cornell Graduate School spoke with students at length about…
The 'Thinking Like a Scientist' program, developed by Cornell's Wendy Williams, teaches disadvantaged children the scientific method and why it is so relevant to their lives. (July 19, 2007)
Researchers using the Arecibo Observatory's powerful radar have made the most detailed observations ever of a binary near-Earth asteroid (NEA) -- two clusters of rubble circling each other -- offering new clues about how such…
Summer visitors to Cornell Plantations have been marveling at the brilliant flowers and foliage in the container plantings on display at Plantations' Lewis Education Center.
The discovery makes the fiery environment within a typical spiral or starburst galaxy look almost pastoral. Cornell researchers using the Spitzer Space Telescope say distant galaxies contain an inferno of very young, massive and…
A decade ago, when some of Wolfgang Sachse's graduate students began to dance tango, they invited him to watch. He brought his camera. "I was intrigued by what I saw: the connection between two persons moving beautifully through…
Two Cornell faculty members have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to conduct research abroad during their sabbatical years.
A symposium on child welfare and child protective policies over the past 50 years is slated for May 5, at Cornell University. The symposium celebrates Child Abuse Prevention Month and the career of James Cameron.
Children and adults joined the Lab of Ornithology and Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City May 10-13 to Celebrate Urban Birds -- NYC. (May 14, 2007)