They got started way back in 1994, in the "pre-Netscape days," before the Internet took off as a commercial enterprise. It was then that Cornell students Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, armed with only a modem and a Macintosh computer in Krizelman's dorm room.
Amos Webber (1826-1904) perhaps never intended there would be a biography written of him. After all, his life as a black man born free in the North, as a Civil War soldier, as a servant and janitor was the not an experience that captured headlines. His was a life that could be overlooked easily by historians and others who document America's past.
Imagine a school lunch program with entrees containing only 6 percent of calories from fat, almost completely based on nutrient-dense USDA commodity plant foods, such as dried beans, lentils, bulgur wheat and brown rice, and -- here is the hard-to-imagine part -- is readily eaten by children.
Cornell biologists who study dwindling populations of one of the rarest mammals in North America have found another reason to let "natural" fires burn. Without lightning-sparked fires every 10 to 12 years, they say, pine trees are isolating Northern Idaho ground squirrels into shrinking groups.
A major collection of previously undocumented papers from U.S. presidents and other political leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries has been donated to Cornell Library by a current student. The collection includes a number of letters written by John and Abigail Adams, the nation's second presidential couple.
Professor George Milkovich's global classroom is truly something new and different. Milkovich has been on the faculty of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations for 20 years.
State Assemblyman Martin A. Luster is holding a series of town meetings in the 125th District. Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations prepared the following remarks for delivery at a town meeting in the Council Chambers of City Hall in Cortland.
A $20 million gift to Cornell from an alumnus will launch major new instructional and research initiatives in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art facilities in growing technologies for electronic and photonic devices, biotechnology and advanced materials processing.
The clash of two armies at a place that one side called Bull Run and the other Manassas was supposed to end a war before it began. But when the battle was over, 900 soldiers lay dead on the fields of Virginia, and a man on a mission of mercy from Ithaca, who four years later would found a great university, was running for his life.