Cornell Plantations and other tree-friendly groups in Tompkins County are gearing up for the third annual Big Tree Search, a contest that aims for year-round tree appreciation. Nov. 15, 1997, is the deadline for the nomination of trees that may be the largest of their species in Tompkins County.
Benjamin Widom, Cornell University Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, is honored with a special issue of the journal Molecular Physics. (November 15, 2005)
Into the Streets, a program of the Public Service Center at Cornell, is sponsoring its sixth annual Fall Service Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. On that day, several hundred Cornell students, faculty and staff will join with members of the Ithaca community in a day of public service projects.
Yolanda Tseng, a senior in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a 2003 Winston Churchill Scholarship for a year of graduate study at Cambridge University in England.
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.
Robin Hadlock Seeley, a Cornell marine biologist, spearheaded an invasive species survey of Cobscook Bay, Maine, that has discovered a sea squirt there that could potentially threaten the important fishing area.
A behind-the-scenes tour of the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine awaits visitors at the college's annual open house April 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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.
Events this week include physicist Kathy Selby at the Light in Winter Festival, old-time duo The Pearly Snaps, William Finn's musical 'Elegies' and fiction writer Edwidge Danticat.