Two Cornell students are among 40 students nationwide who have been awarded prestigious 1999 Marshall Scholarships for study in the United Kingdom. This year's recipients from Cornell are David Roberts, of Huntsville, Ala., a senior.
A potentially fatal bacterial disease that damages the liver and kidneys of dogs, humans and other animals – leptospirosis – is appearing in new forms in the United States.
Three Cornell faculty winners of 2002-03 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships -- for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students -- were announced at a special dinner on campus March 6.
A new program developed by three Cornell University students promises to help more of Ithaca's urban teens get into college. The 16 Leadership Service Projects developed by Park Fellows at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Could an ancient plant rooted in thousands of years of Chinese tradition provide an economic boost to New York forest owners? A new cooperative team of researchers at Cornell and the North American Ginseng Assoc. is going to find out.
Want to reduce the risk of osteoporosis? Eat less meat, Cornell researchers say. In fact, they say, reducing the amount of meat in the diet may do more to reduce the risk of osteoporosis than increasing calcium intake.
As a respite from summertime weed-whacking, fly-swatting and pest-repelling, a new book edited and co-authored by Cornell's ecologist David Pimentel makes compelling reading.
The time is near, Cornell waste-management researchers say, when patrons of environmentally friendly restaurants can take home two packages: the traditional doggie bag of leftovers for tomorrow's lunch box plus a sack of compost for the garden or window box.
Biologists and acoustic engineers based at Cornell will join researchers at two sites in Africa in a new program to monitor the numbers and health of forest elephants by eavesdropping on the sounds they make. New monitoring procedures will be tested in the Central African Republic.