Exactly what governs the motions of falling paper? While college students suspect the answer is known to lazy professors – the ones who allegedly grade essays by throwing them down stairwells to see which sails the farthest.
A just-released report to a bipartisan Congressional commission documented 48,417 U.S. jobs outsourced to other countries or publicly announced as being scheduled for outsourcing, from January through March 2004.
Author and illustrator Bente Starcke King will demonstrate botanical drawing and watercolor techniques and sign copies of her new book, Beautiful Botanicals in the Cornell Plantations Garden Gift Shop on campus.
President Jeffrey Lehman will cut the red ribbon that marks the official grand reopening of the renovated School of Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center, Research and Extension Buildings Oct. 15.
eCornell has decided that its future success requires a smaller, focused organization to specialize in sales and service to corporations and individuals seeking online professional training from Cornell.
According to a new study by Cornell University food scientists, led by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of food science, shallots, Western Yellow, pungent yellow and Northern Red onions are higher in anti-cancer chemicals than other varieties tested. (Oct. 7, 2004)
This academic year for the first time, incoming first-year and transfer undergraduates at Cornell completed an on-line alcohol education course before arriving on campus for orientation. AlcoholEdu is a commercial program designed to assist students in making healthy decisions regarding alcohol use in college.
A new management "tool kit" from an expert at Cornell University may help hoteliers everywhere be better prepared the next time disaster strikes and the lights go out or the water stops running.
Duffield Hall, Cornell's landmark nanotechnology center and its first new research facility of the 21st century, will be dedicated on Oct. 6 in a ceremony in the building's atrium.
Calling all seniors: Cornell University gerontologists are looking for people 60 years of age or older who are willing to share what life has taught them.
Daniel Ellsberg, the Cold War hardliner turned antiwar activist who brought the Pentagon Papers to the nation's attention, will deliver a free public talk titled "Abu Ghraib, Vietnam and Empire" on Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
A substantial number of older persons are physically or mentally abused, and mistreated seniors are three times more likely to die within three years than those who are not abused, a study done for Cornell researchers.
