New York's other World Series team, the Sapsuckers from the Laboratory of Ornithology, are scanning the skies of the Garden State in hopes that 2000 will be the year they finally take top honors in the World Series of Birding.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has named the 1996 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, honoring their "effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students."
Experts with a wide variety of perspectives at an April 1-2 conference at Cornell will attempt to answer the question: Who should rightfully profit from biotechnology's exploitation of the "intellectual property" of nature?
On Jan. 25, students will come together for Global Seminar ALS 480, a spring semester course that examines international food issues and formulates positions on worldwide agricultural sustainability.
Events on campus this week include Maple weekend, CSA Fair, Reimagining Cornell, student mental health, Seder dinners, Don Randel, Literary Luncheon, Sir Richard Jolly, Bailey Hall concert.
The video and sound engineers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library - billed as the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video - are in the process of digitizing their entire collection.
Cornell Professor K.V. Raman teaches Agriculture in Developing Nations by taking some 50 Cornell students to India in January after a semester of preparation, followed by a semester of reflection. Indian students take the course, too, from India. (November 09, 2005)
Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings will be heading to China Nov. 14 for a four-day trip to Beijing. He plans to sign an official partnership agreement with Peking University (formalizing Cornell's newest academic major, China and Asia-Pacific studies), deliver a keynote address at the 2005 Beijing Forum and participate in an engineering workshop with Tsinghua University. (November 07, 2005)
Scratching the surface of wild tomatoes that bugs don't bother, Cornell scientists discovered the plants' chemical secret for repelling insect pests: a complex, waxy substance that commercially grown tomatoes have "forgotten" how to make.
In a war against the European corn borer, a major pest of sweet corn, Cornell scientists have found that an army of tiny wasps, released just once and early in the season, can reduce damage to ears of corn by half.