Ten undergraduates are vying for prize money in the second Big Idea Competition for their creative business ideas. Watch their pitches and help determine the winners April 11, 4-5:30 p.m., in 196 Beck Center, Statler Hall.
It's June 2002 and the desks in Alan Fiero's seventh-grade science classroom are empty. But the students from Farnsworth Middle School in Guilderland, N.Y., aren't on vacation.
A tiny, voracious fly called the swede midge, which already has eaten its way across eastern Canada's cabbage and broccoli fields, now is threatening to descend on crops in states along the northern U.S. border. On Feb. 11 an educational session on the swede midge will be held for registered growers at the 2003 New York State Vegetable Conference in Liverpool, N.Y
At the request of Cornell University, the permitting process for the replacement incinerator at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine has been suspended by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), and the university is inviting community and campus groups to participate in an advisory committee on the project.
Sloppy Slope Jolt is the winning ice cream flavor in the annual ice cream-making competition in Cornell University's Food Science 101. It references Cornell's Libe slope -- caffeine for studying and the indulgence of Slope Day with brownies, hazelnuts and caramel. (December 06, 2005)
Students enrolled in the four statutory colleges at Cornell are receiving good news this week. The elimination of a proposed tuition increase for the State University of New York when the state budget was passed, most students in the statutory colleges will see tuition reductions
When sound editors needed the twitterings, hoots and songs of a chiffchaff, burrowing owl, European robin, song thrush, common nightingale and rooks at a rookery for 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' they called on Cornell's Macaulay Library
Cities throughout the Northeast have enjoyed one of the coolest Julys on record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. New York City never saw an official high temperature in July above 89 degrees at Central Park – for the entire month – the first time that has happened in 107 years.