Cornell food scientists are helping to uncork the mystery of 'brett' aroma in wines

It makes wine smell like a barn, wet leather, horse sweat, or burned beans. It is called "brett," and it produces an often-pungent aroma in wine. Scientists are starting to unravel the chemical mysteries that produce the curious aroma found in fermented beverages like wine and beer

Pumpkin's reign will end this Friday

Friday at 10 a.m., Provost Don Randel will be hoisted by crane to the top of McGraw Tower to cut loose the bright orange object at its peak.

Exhibit at Willard Straight Hall, Feb. 23-March 6, shows faces of AIDS

After stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., galleries in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Florence, Italy, and two weeks at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, the artist Jason Dilley's startling exhibit on the faces and voices of AIDS, Project Face to Face, will open at the art gallery in Willard Straight Hall.

Lecture by former death row inmate rescheduled for Feb. 19 at Cornell Law School

Former death row inmate Rolando Cruz has rescheduled his appearance at the Cornell Law School for Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Room G90 of Myron Taylor Hall.

The end of the pumpkin saga

At 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 1998, Cornell University Provost Don Randel was scheduled to ascend to the top of the library tower to take a sample of the famous pumpkin. At 9:18 a.m. workmen testing the crane accidentally bumped the pumpkin and knocked it off the spire.

Feminist author of Backlash to speak in Bailey Hall

Feminist author Susan Faludi will deliver the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture on Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall at Cornell.

New York red wines show higher levels of resveratrol, a Cornell University study finds

New York state red wines have higher levels of resveratrol -- a naturally occurring substance in grapes that has been found to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer -- than comparable wines from other regions of the world.

Birds to bytes: BirdSource "Great '98 Backyard Bird Count" invites families and individuals to make history

People across the continent can help make bird-watching history on February 20, 21, and 22 by participating in the first-ever BirdSource Great '98 Backyard Bird Count, cosponsored by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.

Cornell's Health Awareness Week, Feb. 9-13, features address by expert on gender violence

An address by Jackson Katz, founder and director of MVP Strategies Inc., an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to the U.S. military services, colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, community organizations and corporations, will highlight activities during Health Awareness Week on the Cornell.