Events on campus this week include: Native American Smokedance competition, Vet College open house, Big Red Relief concert for Haiti, MTV media expert and several sustainability-related lectures. (April 8, 2010)
In combating West Nile virus, information could be the ultimate repellant. In an effort to develop an early-warning system for potential West Nile virus outbreaks, Cornell University's Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) and the Department of Entomology will spend this summer collecting climate data in areas where disease-carrying mosquitoes are found. The U.S. government-funded research, it is hoped, will result in the first Web-based, degree-day calculator that warns public health officials when, where and under which conditions infectious mosquitoes can either thrive or die. The information is expected to be on line by next summer. (June 19, 2003)
Cornell officials say David Skorton's Feb. 22 signing of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment is only one piece of the larger picture for Cornell's sustainability goals. (Feb. 27, 2007)
The unique Cornell-affiliated Agroforestry Resource Center in the Hudson Valley teaches the region's forest owners how to reap extra cash from their land without necessarily having to cut trees down.
Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell study warns.
Courses within the Faculty Fellows-in-Service (FFIS) program aim to combine the theory of service-learning with practical challenges of applying those theories.
Rodney R. Dietert, professor of immunotoxicology in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named director of the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell.
The Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S. Ag.) degree program in public garden management, a new academic specialty announced in 2002 by the Cornell University Department of Horticulture and Cornell Plantations, has just enrolled its third crop of fellows. One hundred and five years earlier, that department was founded by the "Dean of American Horticulture," Liberty Hyde Bailey, who subsequently conferred the cryptic name, "Plantations," on the Cornell unit that now administers the university's arboretum, botanical garden and natural areas. (May 9, 2003)
During a meeting of the full committee in the Cornell Club in Manhattan Sept. 21, PSC members got their first look at a database of more than 150 presidential nominees whose names were submitted through both formal and informal channels.