Five individuals who have dedicated their lives to feeding and housing the homeless will participate in a lecture series this spring at Cornell. The lecture series is part of Cornell's Housing and Feeding the Homeless Program, which began in 1988.
John Guckenheimer, Cornell professor of mathematics and of theoretical and applied mechanics, was selected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He will begin his two-year term in January 1997.
For now, the epizootic that killed a third of the lions in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is under control, according to the Cornell University veterinarian who pinned the fatal outbreak on canine distemper virus (CDV).
For the first time in textile/apparel education, students from three colleges are using computer technology and the Internet to simulate the way apparel will be designed in the near future.
To help Northeast consumers choose foods that are not only healthful but also regional and seasonal, Cornell Cooperative Extension offers the new Northeast Regional Food Guide. Eating locally supports farmers and the local economy, protects natural resources and preserves regional farmland, said Jennifer Wilkins, Ph.D., R.D., senior extension associate in Cornel's Division of Nutritional Sciences and author of the materials with Jennifer Bokaer-Smith, nutrition graduate student.
Glenn Altschuler encounters it a lot these days: the fear among undergraduate students, particularly in the liberal arts, that they won't be sufficiently "marketable" upon graduation. In response, the dean of Cornell's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and other administrators and faculty have created the Summer Program in International Business, an eight-week curriculum that will give students in fields ranging from anthropology to electrical engineering a hands-on introduction to the business world.
In Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, scientists are artificially inducing disorder where none occurs naturally, in one of the most unusual states of matter ever created – superfluid helium-3. This fluid is in a unique state that allows it to flow without resistance. Understanding its properties in this disordered state could help understand the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.
Most vacationers complain to the travel agent when deadly spiders infest their warm weather getaway. Maydianne C.B. Andrade is delighted. The Cornell graduate student spent January in the blazing heat of Western Australia, painting color codes on redback spider legs by day. At night she donned a head lamp to watch one of the most extreme forms of self-sacrifice in the animal kingdom.
A Cornell researcher crossed three varieties of yellow onion trying to find a line of higher-yielding plants, but instead came up with something unexpected. While he shed tears, they were tears of joy: The researcher, Thomas W. Walters, Ph.D., had stumbled onto a sweet, pink onion.
Imagine a school lunch program with entrees containing only 6 percent of calories from fat, almost completely based on nutrient-dense USDA commodity plant foods such as dried beans, lentils, bulgur wheat and brown rice, and -- here is the hard-to-imagine part -- is readily eaten by children. Yet such food is being served -- and consumed -- in six schools across the nation, thanks to a pilot program developed at Cornell.
Watch some wine-tasters contemplate their choice and you might think flavors take forever to register in the brain. In fact, humans can make taste-dependent decisions after as little as 50 milliseconds (50 thousandths of a second) of tasting, research at Cornell is showing. That's a good thing, says sensory physiologist Bruce P. Halpern, Ph.D.
Charles E. Palm, Cornell dean of the College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and the university's first Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences, died Feb. 25 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 84. As a true leader and innovator in many scientific and academic fronts.
