The Cornell University Weed Team sends graduate student Courtney Stokes to the 2013 North Central and Northeastern Collegiate Weed competition in Illinois for two days of brutal, mind-bending, grueling agronomic combat on July 24-25.
Ph.D. student Michelle Baumflek is studying indigenous plants in northern Maine that have economic impact and cultural significance for Native American tribes.
Cornell is pursuing a project that has the potential to eliminate 110,000 metric tons of carbon from its annual footprint and establish one of the country's most advanced geothermal systems to heat the Ithaca campus.
The 2008 presidential election may well prove to be the tipping point for women in presidential politics - that was the consensus of participants in an alumni program held in Washington, D.C., Oct. 30. (Nov. 13, 2008)
When Barack Obama is inaugurated U.S. president Jan. 21, the celebration will be Big Red, white and blue. Cornellians are helping prepare a whirlwind of inauguration celebrations and parades.
Events on campus this week include a reopening celebration on Schwartz Plaza, "Dial M for Murder" in 3-D, an International Fair, a jazz combo performance, and exhibits in Kroch Library, Ives Hall and the Human Ecology Building.
Soil scientists Jerome H. Cherney, William J. Cox and Peter R. Hobbs have received awards from the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America. (Nov. 10, 2008)
To celebrate National Bike to Work Day, students, faculty and staff biked in the first Tour de Cornell bike ride across campus May 21, sponsored by Transportation Services and the Cornell Wellness Program. (May 24, 2010)
A new exhibit, “Chinese Traditional Dress and Its Influence,” provides an overview of Chinese dress of the Qing period and the influence of Eastern style on Western fashions in the early 20th century.