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The pumpkin atop McGraw Tower in November 1997. In October 1997, a pumpkin was placed on the lightning rod of McGraw Tower at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.Due to attempts to identify the pumpkin, speculation on how it was placed, and the unknown identity of the culprit, the pumpkin acquired national news coverage as well as a dedicated website with a webcam.
Colonel Barton was one of the first two Cornell students to receive an army commission in Cornell's Military Science Program, [1] and was the first ROTC commandant at Cornell from 1904 to 1908. [3] During World War I, Barton Hall functioned as an airplane hangar [ 1 ] and it served the ROTC as an armory during World War II.
McGraw Tower is a masonry clock tower located on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.The tower was known as Library Tower when it was first built but was renamed in 1961 in honor of either John McGraw, one of Cornell's original donors, or his daughter Jennie McGraw, the philanthropist in whose honor the tower and its adjacent library were originally commissioned by Henry W. Sage.
The new Comstock Hall. Comstock Hall is a building of Cornell University, located in Ithaca, in the U.S. state of New York.It was built in 1985 in the modern style. The "old" Comstock Hall was built by New York State for the Entomology Department, but in the 1980s, it was sold to Cornell so that mainframe computers could be relocated from Langmuir Laboratory.
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2024, the student body included 16,128 undergraduate and ...
“It creates an enormous amount of uncertainty for multinational companies that sell products worldwide, that import from the rest of the world, that run these complex supply chains through multiple countries,” said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University.
The Lab is an administrative unit within Cornell University. It has a separate 30-member Administrative Board that is appointed by the Cornell Board of Trustees. [8] As of fiscal year 2023, the Lab has an annual budget of $45.4 million and income of $45.8 million. [9] It has 18 senior staff, which includes eight holding Cornell faculty ...
With changing climate patterns and milder winters, “every season is tick season,” Matt Frye, Ph.D., an entomologist and educator with the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program at ...