Engineering students on the AguaClara Project Team pitched the idea of a water plant to the town of Ciudad Espana during the students' two-week stay in Honduras, Jan. 4-20. (Feb. 13, 2008)
On May 12, 1904, six black bulls, a cadet band, an entomology float and more than 2,000 students marched in a parade celebrating Cornell's designation as the official New York State College of Agriculture.
A survey asks Cornell researchers what they need to do research involving massive amounts of data, as a step in upgrading the university's cyberinfrastructure.
Slow childhood growth rates in poor countries aren't necessarily due to a "poor man's diet" devoid of meats and other foods of animal origin, as many scientists and policy makers have long assumed, reported a Cornell nutritionist who is the director of a huge diet and disease study by Cornell in China.f the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and Richard Peto, professor at Oxford University in England.
Cornell vegetable experts are working with New York Amish and Mennonite communities in using high-tunnel technology, a sort of plastic greenhouse that keeps plants warmer and extends the growing season. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Master Lin Yun, a distinguished and progressive philosopher and religious figure in Tantric Buddhism, will present a lecture at Cornell University on Monday, Nov. 25.
Wesley Sine and Shon Hiatt have spent the last few years studying the impact of violence on the small-business climate of Colombia, concluding that instability directly affects entrepreneurs' ability to prosper.
Community colleges nationwide serve 11 million students and are under increased public pressure to develop new programs to meet the training needs of the 21st century workforce and to expand educational opportunities for high school graduates and older workers who need to develop new skills.
Nature writer Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, considered a classic of environmental literature, will present a public lecture at Cornell, Tuesday, March 26. Titled "Homework: The Art of Sustainability," Williams' talk will be in Auditorium D of Goldwin Smith Hall on campus beginning at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, and no tickets are needed. (March 8, 2002)
Students entering Cornell will consider a crucial moment in American history by reading and discussing Garry Wills' Pulitzer Prize-winning book for the New Student Reading Project. (Aug. 14, 2008)