A 12-foot, blight-resistant chestnut tree has recently been planted in a park in White Plains, N.Y., to honor Ezra Cornell and to launch a Cornell Cooperative Extension project to help restore the American chestnut tree to the state. (May 2, 2008)
As if the free ice cream was not enough. Cornell University's famous a capella singing group The Hangovers will serenade holiday revelers at the Cornell Dairy Bar's fifth annual "Lighting of the Cows" Friday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m.
Pool tuition and create a fund for universitywide priorities, recommends a task force on the budget model, part of the Reimagining Cornell strategic planning process.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees, at its regular meeting March 10, approved the following tuition rates for the New York state statutory colleges for 2000-01.
There is a 'digital divide,' but a study shows that low-income households spend more time online than others, using it for e-mail, researching purchases, finding health information and reading news. (April 11, 2008)
'Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility' will look at comparative research on why some people remain poor for long periods of time while others manage to escape poverty.
Many hands are stitching together a project that gives a compact fluorescent light bulb and reusable tote bag to the 1,400 households in Caroline, N.Y., thanks to a bright idea promoted by Shawn Lindabury '09. (March 25, 2008)
Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer - particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer, according to a new Cornell study. (Nov. 11, 2008)
The outcome of Nicaragua's Nov. 5 elections will have far-reaching international political and economic ripples, according to Jose Luis Velazquez Pereira, who spoke at Cornell Oct. 12.
Graduate student Leif Ristroph found that two or more flexible objects in a flow - flags flapping in the wind, for example - experience drag very differently from rigid objects in a similar flow. (Nov. 6, 2008)