The team passed its Department of Motor Vehicles salvage vehicles inspection to be eligible for registration in New York - a requirement to compete for the Progressive Automotive X Prize.
Why don't the French get as fat as Americans, considering all the wine, cheese and pastries they eat? Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating. (Feb. 7, 2008)
To see the effects of global climate change, scientists in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch say they need new and veteran participants alike to help count birds.
D. Merrill Ewert, a faculty member in the Department of Education, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension by the deans of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
After returning from Belize, students in the Experiential Garden-Based Learning in Belize course will develop useful products that educators and children in Belize can use. (May 5, 2011)
Cornell Law School hosted a conference Nov. 4-6 on water scarcity and policy in the Middle East and Mediterranean, which attracted a wide array of international scholars. (Nov. 8, 2011)
Double Gold and Crimson Night are new raspberries that are well suited for small-scale growers and home gardeners who want showy, flavorful raspberries on vigorous, disease resistant plants. (April 30, 2012)
President George Bush wasn't bugged by having a slime-mold beetle named for him. In fact, he was so pleased that he telephoned former Cornell Professor Quentin Wheeler in London on April 29 to thank him.
Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers, some from as far away as Poland, Singapore and China, May 20. The teachers will be brought to campus and recognized for their inspirational teaching with a $4,000 scholarship in their names for future Cornell students from their schools or regions.
The Belleville-Henderson Central School District in northern New York is helping Cornell scientists study grass as a low-tech, local renewable energy system by maintaining switchgrass trial plots. (Nov. 3, 2011)