BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- Forget the sand traps and the water hazards. The real battle on Long Island's Bethpage State Park golf course, the site of this year's U.S. Open June 13-16, is making the putting greens free from fungal diseases, cutworms and weevils ---- and safe from the pesticides used to combat them. Turf scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and the Bethpage greenskeepers have been looking for ways to substantially reduce pesticide use on one of the nation's busiest public golf-course complexes. (June 6, 2002)
Attention teachers far and wide: It may not be so much what or how you teach that will reap high student evaluations, but something as simple as an enthusiastic tone of voice.And beware, administrators, if you use student ratings to judge teachers: Although student evaluations may be systematic and reliable, a Cornell University study.
Cornell graduate students Andrew Harwood and Michael Lukianoff hope to create a wine growers' cooperative and winery in Virginia that will help farmers in depressed rural communities there replace their tobacco crops with biodynamically grown grapes.
Edward J. Lawler, professor of organizational behavior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, has been nominated to serve a five-and-a- half-year term as dean of the school, beginning Jan. 1, 1997.
The Cornell Tradition program at Cornell has honored 12 seniors for their outstanding demonstration of the program's values of work, service and scholarship, with $2,500 awards.
State lawmakers should not move hastily to ban cloning research because it could yield medical breakthroughs that benefit humanity, a Cornell cloning pioneer told a New York State Senate Committee last week.
A conference titled "Hollywood vs. Babelsberg: Nazi Entertainment Films" on Saturday, Jan. 27, at Cornell will explore the politics of film in the Third Reich within the broader context of an emerging entertainment industry.
The EMBA - or executive option to the MBA program at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management - allows working professionals to earn a master's degree in business administration in just two years, without a break in service from their regular jobs or a loss in salary.
Cornell scientists have confirmed what they believe is the first known infestation of an Asian long-horned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, a large beetle that is attacking Brooklyn's horsechestnut and Norway maple tree population.