Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the most prestigious national awards for undergraduate students in the fields of science, mathematics or engineering, have been won by four Cornell undergraduates. Now in its 15th year, the Goldwater Scholarship programs honors the late U.S. senator from Arizona and provides awards of up to $7,500 per year for each recipient to help cover the costs of tuition, fees, books and room-and-board.
George L. McNew, who was instrumental in bringing the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research, Inc., to its current site on the campus of Cornell University, died Oct. 30, in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 90.
Baseball might be America's pastime, but last week more than 500 people skipped the early innings of the World Series opener to catch a reading by author Tim O'Brien.
Potentially damaging soybean aphids have been detected in several central and western counties of New York state, according to Cornell University entomologists.
Nine years of United Nations economic sanctions against Iraq have created genocidal conditions and should be eliminated, Denis Halliday, a former UN official, told a Cornell audience last week.
A Cornell researcher presented new recordings of what sounded like at least one ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) at the American Ornithologist's Union on August 24, 2005.
At the first of four retirement forums March 6, Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman and human resources staff members fielded questions related to the new staff retirement incentive programs. (March 13, 2009)
The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows, and it re-elected three at-large members, one member from the field of labor and three fellows. Board members also welcomed two new alumni-elected trustees, one new faculty-elected trustee and one new student-elected trustee.
Beginning on Monday, June 8, Tower Road, a main thoroughfare of the Cornell University campus, will become the site of several major construction projects.