In 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, a pioneering exposure of the hazards of the pesticide DDT, became one of the most influential books in the history of science and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.
The following testimony is scheduled to be delivered by Henrik N. Dullea, Cornell vice president for university relations, at a New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education hearing on "Rethinking SUNY." The hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Morris Conference Center, State University of New York at Oneonta.
Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, the last of the giants of the golden age of 20th-century physics and the birth of modern atomic theory, and one of science's most universally admired figures, died at his home in Ithaca, N.Y.
As little as a decade ago "computer networking" meant watching words creep slowly across your screen; today's computer networks deliver photographs, engineering drawings, CD-quality audio, full-motion video.
Surfing the Web or spinning your own Web site? Millions are, but you're probably not evaluating your site to see what effects it has or using your Web site to evaluate your Web site.
Hunter R. Rawlings III announced today his intention to retire from the presidency on June 30, 2003, and to assume a full-time professorship thereafter in the university's Department of Classics.
When Theodore C. Bestor haunts the wharves of New England and the Tsukiji Wholesale Seafood Market in Tokyo, he's not just looking for really fresh fish. What the Cornell University social anthropologist is learning about Japanese expectations for imported seafood may aid the U.S. trade balance.
Cornell has put together special financial-aid packages to attract high-caliber students who otherwise could not afford an Ivy League education. These efforts are starting to pay off in terms of both economic and racial diversity on campus.
A simple change in cattle diets in the days before slaughter may reduce the risk of Escherichia coli (E. coli) infections in humans, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cornell University microbiologists have discovered.