On Nov. 6 Provost Kent Fuchs announced that the reports of the 20 strategic planning task forces are available and that public discussions on six of the reports will be held in the coming weeks.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. (BTI) has named plant molecular biologist David B. Stern as vice president for research. Stern succeeds Stephen H. Howell, who has accepted the directorship of the Plant Science Institute at Iowa State University.
The 'tree' simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive capillary action that allows real trees to wick moisture upward to their highest branches. (Sept. 10, 2008)
Cornell vegetable experts are working with New York Amish and Mennonite communities in using high-tunnel technology, a sort of plastic greenhouse that keeps plants warmer and extends the growing season. (Sept. 5, 2008)
From one ecologist's perspective, the American system of farming grain-fed livestock consumes resources far out of proportion to the yield, accelerates soil erosion, affects world food supply and will be changing in the future.
Nature writer Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, considered a classic of environmental literature, will present a public lecture at Cornell, Tuesday, March 26. Titled "Homework: The Art of Sustainability," Williams' talk will be in Auditorium D of Goldwin Smith Hall on campus beginning at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, and no tickets are needed. (March 8, 2002)
Since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has been honoring its own graduating seniors with Senior Recognition Awards.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. In his first commencement ceremony since assuming the Cornell presidency on July 1, 1995, Rawlings will confer degrees on almost 6,000 eligible graduates.
What can you do in four years? How about finding a lifelong passion and researching it with feverish intensity -- just as members of the graduating class of Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (CPRS) have done.
Some of North America's most misunderstood animals, the timber wolves, will try to set the record straight in a live appearance Sunday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in Cornell University's Statler Auditorium.