Plans for Duffield Hall, a new research center facility aimed at keeping Cornell a leader in nanotechnology, have been submitted to the city of Ithaca, beginning the environmental and site-plan review processes.
A group of experts on peer-to-peer file sharing managed to agree on one thing last night: that having people obtain intellectual property without compensating the creators is not a good thing.
Cornell students won the National Championship of Soil Judging held April 26 at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., scoring 2,060 points, beating second-place University of Wisconsin-Platteville at 2,032.
David Feldshuh, Cornell professor of theatre, film and dance and artistic director of the university's Center for Theatre Arts (CTA), will launch the popular 'Mind and Memory' lecture series Monday, Jan. 24, from 2:55 to 4:10 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has unveiled a web site devoted to rare, historically significant books on agriculture. Not merely citations, the books can be read in full online.
"Americans have an ugly history of executing poor children. In the United States, we have been killing our children for more than three centuries," argues an award-winning Cornell University historian. To illuminate some important, but forgotten, history, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, professor of history, human development and gender studies, uses the prism of a single historical case in a new book, Kansas Charley: The Story of a l9th Century Boy Murderer (Viking, 2003). (September 24, 2003)
Patrons of Cornell's Guest Chef Series will be able to get a taste of history when John Doherty, executive chef of the Waldorf-Astoria who has prepared meals for state dinners hosted by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, recreates these historic dinners for the public March 3.
While many businesses in the early 1990s were faltering, franchising steadily grew 6 to 8 percent every year and reaped an annual income of more than $760 billion. "If franchising continues to grow at its current rate, franchises will account for one-half of all retail sales by the turn of the century," says Mike Powers.
The publication of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in April 1953 by a pair of Cambridge biologists named James Watson and Francis Crick set the stage for a revolution in the way we study living organisms.
D.L. Birchfield, a visiting lecturer in the American Indian Program at Cornell, has won the 1997 Louis Littlecoon Oliver Memorial Prose Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, an association of American Indian novelists, poets, and playwrights.