In a decision dated Jan. 7, 1999, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in Albany, unanimously upheld the dismissal, in its entirety, of a lawsuit brought by Professor James Maas against Cornell.
Two members of Cornell University's faculty – one from Lebanon, the other from South Africa, one studying plant reproduction, the other probing black holes – have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
The Alumni Association of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will honor George J. Conneman and Bernard F. Stanton, professors of agricultural economics, with the association's Outstanding Faculty Award at the annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20.
But according to new research by Cornell entomologist Bryan N. Danforth, not all the viable larvae emerge in any one year of diapause, and their "coming out" is triggered by rain.
From disappearing frogs and Alaskan fisheries to Gypsy herbs and West African deforestation, filmmakers will talk about their artistic visions at the third annual Environmental Film Festival Oct. 22-28.
Twenty years ago, when the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act was written and large central-station steam-turbine facilities were the best way to generate electricity, no one expected the technological development of the small-scale, super-efficient, combined-cycle gas turbines that independent power producers and many utilities use today.
Plant scientists from Cornell and the University of Tasmania, Australia, have successfully cloned one of history's first-studied genes -- the gene for stem growth in peas, according to a report in the latest issue of journal The Plant Cell, which was published today.
Illustration by Carla DeMelloRussian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted his proof to the Poincaré Conjecture on arXiv in three parts. The titles of his submissions are encrypted above in three rebus puzzles created by Carla…
The state of New York, through its New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, has awarded Cornell University $2.8 million over two years to establish a new Center for Advanced Technology.
Cornell and a private foundation organized by the Emir of Qatar announced today (April 9, 2001) the establishment of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.