Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute are studying the bacterium speck, which causes withered flowers and dark spots on leaves and fruits, and can result in the loss of whole fields of crops.
For the next eight weeks, the university will seek to raise $10,000 a week in pledges to the United Way, announced University Librarian Anne Kenney, chair of the Cornell United Way campaign.
A $7.5 million gift from the Macaulay Family Foundation to the the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will expand the Macaulay Library's scientific archive of natural sound and video recordings.
The student group Mixed at Cornell received the recently renamed James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony, March 16 in Willard Straight Hall.
The College of Arts and Sciences' fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 with humanists and technologists.
On Feb. 22, the College of Arts and Sciences brought together faculty working on philosophy of mind in a Big Ideas panel, part of the New Century for the Humanities celebration.
Cornell has announced that one fraternity has been placed on suspended status and two others are on interim suspension as a result of allegations of hazing.
Gilbert Stoewsand, a Cornell food scientist who helped to rescue New York's fledgling wine industry in the early 1970s by debunking shoddy science that attributed health risks wine made from hybrid grapes, died July 4. He was 83.