Get milk and get in the groove. As part of the 2004 Shake Stuff Up Tour, the Milk Mustache Mobile rolls onto the Cornell University campus Wednesday, July 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. It will be at the Cornell Dairy Store, at the corner of Tower and Judd Falls roads.
By tweaking a gene in the mouse genome, scientists are creating animal models of Huntington's disease that mimic human Huntington's and may lead to effective treatments for this killer illness.
New York, NY (July 26, 2004) -- Throughout the history of obstetrics, obstetricians have viewed Cesarean section as a delivery mode that is either medically indicated or not. Times have certainly changed: According to new research from New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, nearly 1 in 5 women who had a Cesarean delivery after being in labor either requested or were offered a Cesarean delivery at some point during labor without a classic medical indication.
Studies have shown that overweight and obese mothers are significantly more likely to quit breast-feeding their infants sooner than do healthy-weight mothers. An important reason why is the weaker biological response that heavier women have to their babies' suckling, according to a study conducted.
This fall, Cornell will conduct a one-year experiment in legal downloading of music. A campuswide site license for the Napster online music service will provide students with streaming and downloading access to the company's library of more than 750,000 songs.
Cindy Hazan, associate professor of human development at Cornell University, has been named professor and dean of the Carl Becker House on West Campus, President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced. Becker House is the second of five residential houses for upper-level students being built as part of Cornell's West Campus House System. Hazan was selected by members of the West Campus Council search committee, which is composed of staff, faculty and students. The committee was co-chaired by Edna Dugan, assistant vice president of student and academic services, and Vice Provost Isaac Kramnick. (July 27, 2004)
Catherine M. Oertel, a doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, has been named a new Discovery Corps postdoctoral fellow by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study corrosion in Baroque-era pipe organs and to develop lesson plans about the physics, chemistry and materials science of musical sound for middle and high school students. Oertel is one of the first six fellows in the new Discovery Corps, an NSF pilot program that is exploring innovative ways for scientists to combine their research expertise with service to society. (July 19, 2004)
The second annual "Cornell on the Commons" community event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. on the downtown Ithaca Commons. Cornell on the Commons, which also is a featured part of the university's Welcome Weekend at the beginning of the fall semester, has the dual purpose of familiarizing Cornell students with downtown Ithaca, while also showcasing many of the Cornell programs and services open to the Ithaca community. (July 19, 2004)
Cornell alumnus Steven B. Belkin, chairman and founder of Trans National Group, will be honored on campus, Oct. 14-15, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.
Despite the efforts of food retailers and food-processing plant managers to maintain a clean, safe environment, strains of the deadly pathogen Listeria monocytogenes can persist for up to a year or longer, according to Cornell food scientists.
Without enough estrogen-like hormone in their systems, female plainfin midshipman fish turn a deaf ear to the alluring love songs of the males. And, according to Cornell biologists, a similar steroid-sensitive response could underlie changes in the hearing sensitivity of humans.
PASADENA, Calif. -- Since the beginning of January the Cornell University team running the panoramic cameras, or Pancams, on the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, has been largely functioning out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. That's where instructions are uplinked, or sent, to the two roving vehicles. But as the mission ages -- in April NASA extended its life until at least mid-September -- demand is growing for space at JPL for other missions, such as Deep Impact and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Both missions also have Cornell involvement; the first studies the interior of a comet, the second will get even higher-resolution orbital data on Mars.) In addition, the Mars science team members need to get back to their universities. (July 14, 2004)
