The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2000 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 27 through Jan. 29.
Robert L. Constable has been reappointed for a second five-year term as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Constable became the first dean of the new faculty unit when it was created in the fall of 1999.
The gift consists of $25 million to establish the Tata-Cornell Initiative in Agriculture and Nutrition, and $25 million for the Tata Scholarship Fund for Students from India.
Experts from around the nation will gather at a Cornell University conference May 22 to explore how historical perspectives, current trends and public policies shape and affect United States farm labor and rural communities.
Cornell students' biological inventory of a rain forest tract in the Amazon is revealing the chemical strategies of organisms that survive in one of the planet's most competitive environments.
Acid rain, the environmental consequence of burning fossil fuels, running factories and driving cars, has altered soils and reduced the number of sugar maple trees growing in the Northeast, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.
Chris Barrett's economic development research takes him into the most poverty-stricken areas of rural Africa, the halls of Washington, D.C., and back to Cornell University, where he collaborates with biophysical and social scientists on innovative ways to improve the lives of some of the poorest people on Earth.
As unpleasant as it is, the nausea and vomiting of "morning sickness" experienced by two-thirds of pregnant women is Mother Nature's way of protecting mothers and fetuses from food-borne illness and also shielding the fetus from chemicals that can deform fetal organs at the most critical time in development.