Applying the 'polluter pays' principle, a Cornell ecologist and author suggests a way to improve the environmental sustainability of agriculture: Levy taxes according to food-chain ranking so that products with the worst environmental impact cost the most.
Cornell has been selected as one of the 100 best campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and will be featured as such in 'The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students,' set for release Aug. 1.
John Butler Babcock, a Cornell 'foremost benefactor,' was active in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell Plantations and the Johnson Museum.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is beginning a yearlong planning process to develop a new organizational structure for one of its oldest and most respected areas of expertise - plants. (Nov. 16, 2011)
The institute, which opened its labs and offices in 2008, is part of Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative to drive revolutionary advances in the life sciences. (Sept. 15, 2010)
Deputy Chief Kathy Zoner, an 18-year veteran of Cornell Police, has been appointed interim chief of the department. She succeeds Curtis S. Ostrander, who has served as chief since 2005. (May 20, 2009)
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has appointed Valerie Reyna, professor and director of extension in the Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology, to serve on the President's National…
A planned telescope known as CCAT, proposed and led by Cornell scientists, has received strong endorsement from a national panel charged with setting priorities in astronomy for the next decade. (Aug. 16, 2010)
Well-known advertising executive, teacher of advertising and public relations and longtime Ithaca resident Howard S. Cogan '50, MPS '80, died Feb. 16 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. (Feb. 19, 2008)