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.
A study by Cornell University researchers finds that when young adults are served larger portions from one week to the next they overeat by almost 40 percent. Eating larger portions over time could account for the growth of the American girth over the past 20 years, the researchers say. (October 01, 2004)
Comedian, actor and author John Cleese returns to Cornell University in his role as A.D. White Professor-at-Large to deliver a public lecture titled "What is Religion? Musings on the 'Life of Brian,'" Friday, Oct. 22.
Postdoctoral researcher Brian Ayre was listening attentively to a Cornell University seminar on flower development when he asked what seemed an obvious question: 'What is the signal that controls flowering?'
On the 100th anniversary of Max Weber's seminal theory of how the values of ascetic Protestantism played a major role in the development of the spirit of capitalism in western Europe, the Center for the Study of Economy and Society (CSES) at Cornell will host a conference.
Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg will give a lecture, "All I am Saying Is Give War a Chance," on Oct. 4 at the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The lecture is sponsored by the Cornell Review and Mock Election 2004. (September 29, 2004)
Some birds' already-amazing memories -- for the thousands of different spots where they cached their food -- can be further improved by blocking natural brain chemicals called cannabinoids, which resemble the active ingredient THC in marijuana.
