For beef producers looking for new ways to economically and efficiently feed their cattle, Cornell animal researchers have shown the effectiveness of an unusual diet: Let them eat bread -- and other commercial bakery leftovers and scraps.
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
While much of the eastern United States digs out from the Blizzard of '96, the snow has stopped falling but snowfall records continue to fall and storm-related anecdotes pile up, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
While Chuck Feeney's name is not attached to any building or professorship, the Hotel School graduate is behind only Ezra Cornell and A.D. White in his overall contributions to the university, according to President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes. (Sept. 27, 2007)
Perfect weather -- temperatures in the 60s, the lightest of breezes and blue skies with postcard-perfect clouds -- graced Cornell University's 137th Commencement May 29, as about 5,600 graduates assembled on the Arts Quad for the academic procession to Schoellkopf Stadium.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has named the 1996 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, honoring their "effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students."
Cornell University engineering undergraduates swept the competition again this year at the annual five-day International Formula SAE collegiate design and motorsports competition at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, which ended May 19.
Some people are never satisfied. First, nanotechnology researchers at Cornell built a device so sensitive it could detect the mass of a single bacterium - about 665 femtograms. Then they built one that could sense the presence of a single virus - about 1.5 femtograms. Now, with a refined technique, they have detected a single DNA molecule, weighing in at 995,000 Daltons - a shade more than 1 attogram - and can even count the number of DNA molecules attached to a single receptor by noting the difference in mass. (May 18, 2005)
"As a lobbyist, my job is advocacy. Like any advocate, if you have a good cause to promote, you are ahead of the game, and I have a great cause: strengthening and globalizing Cornell University," says Stephen Philip Johnson, assistant vice president for government relations at Cornell. Johnson has been advocating for Cornell to state or federal legislators since 1984. Now he is switching his base of operations to Washington, D.C.