Ten plant-related topics, from the natural history of Henry Thoreau to the search for new jungle medicine, are scheduled in the Cornell Plantations Fall 1997 Lecture Series, beginning Sept. 18.
This week's events include a performance by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, music and dance at the Locally Grown Dance Festival, and dinner with Top Chef Jimmy Bradley at the Hotel School's Guest Chefs Series.
Do you know about Frank Dukepoo, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Anna Botsford Comstock or Jim Bell? You will if you close your textbooks, open your eyes and stare straight up at the Ithaca Sciencenter's new Wall of Inspiration to be dedicated on July 27 at 5:30 p.m.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.
A visual art project that brought Jews and Muslims together on Cornell's campus is the winner of the 2003 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony.
A Cornell — City of Ithaca partnership has received $400,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist in addressing the needs and concerns of neighborhoods in Ithaca and to help enhance the quality of life in the city.
Cornell students dove headlong this semester into the works of some of the university's most acclaimed writers, including alums Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon. (December 06, 2005)
A low-tech idea for a healthy and delicious fast-food snack took first place, and an award of $10,000, in a Cornell University contest for the best business idea. The winning concept is Johnny Applestix -- sliced-to-order sticks of fresh apples lightly fried in canola oil, tossed in a secret blend seasoned with cinnamon and sugar, then served with the customer's choice of a vanilla or a caramel dipping sauce. It was developed by Mark Kuperman and Anthony Dellamano, both second-year students in the master's of management in hospitality program at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. They hope eventually to market their product in malls, ballparks, airports and other high-traffic areas across the United States. (April 4, 2003)
Molecular biologists at Cornell University have established a Recombinant Protein Expression Laboratory with a five-year, $986,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute. Located in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the centralized facility will produce proteins for cancer-related research throughout Cornell's Ithaca campus as well as at the Weill Medical College of Cornell and its Tri-Institutional Collaboration partners (Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) in New York City. (June 7, 2002)
Cornell has been named a "College of the Year" by TIME magazine and The Princeton Review for its successful and innovative writing program, the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.