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Cornell's Distance Education Program offers new "Personal Hygiene," a CD-ROM food-employee training program

Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program has announced a new computer-based training program for retail food store managers and associates. The CD-ROM program, which explores the topic "Personal Hygiene," is the first of four programs planned on fundamental topics in food safety and sanitation.

Naked mole-rats: They're not just for scientists anymore

Cornell biologist Paul Sherman, co-author of two new books about naked mole-rats for children and young adults, expects one of the world's weirdest animals will appeal to kids and spark their scientific curiosity.

Cornell's Distance Education Program offers new "Personal Hygiene," a CD-ROM food-employee training program

Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program has announced a new computer-based training program for retail food store managers and associates.

Cornell biologist Paul Sherman writes children's books about mysterious mammal

Slavishly devoted to a charismatic figure, wearing more hair on their toes than on their wrinkled heads, living in the underground among scores of near-identical gang members with really gross personal hygiene — they're the kind of cult parents pray their children won't join.

Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences becomes a World Health Organization center and home to U.N. University research and training

The Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University, the largest academic unit in the United States devoted to the study of and training in human nutrition, has become home to two international centers.

Cornell veterinarian will monitor horse health for Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympics athletes that Dr. Michael A. Ball cares for will run three days in Georgia's July heat, jump over logs and ditches, sweat off as much as 10-15 liters of body fluid an hour and carry other athletes on their backs.

Undergraduates use Cornell supercomputer for summer research

Fifteen undergraduate students from across the country arrived in Ithaca, N.Y., on June 2 to begin a summer of research at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC).

Hans A. Bethe Prize is established by the American Physical Society

Nobel Prize winner Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University professor emeritus of physics, has a new award named in his honor established by the American Physical Society (APS). The APS will announce the award at a reception on the occasion of Bethe's 90th birthday on July 2.

Cornell students win national food product competition with Stir-Ins, a coffee flavor enhancer/cookie

With pencil-shaped, chocolate-covered cookies called Stir-Ins, which add flavor to coffee, Cornell University students on Monday (June 24) won the national championship at the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual student food product competition.

Cornell food engineers redefine the physics of microwave cooking

The microwave oven is not just for popcorn anymore. Consumers who want fresh microwaved foods that are supposed to be crisp and taste better can look forward to improvement, thanks to new Cornell studies that show how moisture, heating rate and the food's porosity interact during microwave cooking.

American, Japanese firms are more profitable in China than are those of Hong Kong or Taiwan, Cornell study shows

Although Hong Kong and Taiwan represent some 80 percent of the foreign investment in China and share a common language and culture with the mainland, American and Japanese foreign investments are much more profitable, according to a Cornell study.

New York investor Steven Ames to chair Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Advisory Council

Steven Ames, a private investor in New York and a longtime supporter of Cornell University's art scene, has been named chair of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Advisory Council. The appointment was made by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.