For their 2008-09 master of engineering project, four operations research students set out to optimize the redistribution of topsoil over a farm in Iowa. (June 3, 2009)
J. Thomas Brenna, professor of nutritional sciences, has a new task: to find better ways to detect steroids in urine to improve drug testing of athletes for performance-enhancing substances. (June 3, 2009)
Cornell scientists have discovered how two related proteins and their roles in a key molecular pathway are critical to creating obesity-causing fat cells. (June 2, 2009)
Cornell's composting operation does more than turn food scraps and animal bedding into nutrient-rich compost: It reduces the university's total waste stream by half, making it the county's second largest recycler.
A study on new guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy, co-led by a Cornell professor, says far too many jeopardize their health and that of their baby by gaining too much or too little weight. (May 29, 2009)
The State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence recognizes seniors who integrate academic excellence with accomplishments in leadership, athletics, community service and the arts. (May 29, 2009)
Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program helped confirm, for the first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales. (May 28, 2009)
Creating community partnerships and developing new techniques to share information are key ways that Cornell and other U.S. universities can help developing countries, says Vice Provost Alice Pell. (May 28, 2009)
The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future will fund five projects this year to stimulate original and cross-disciplinary work in sustainability science.
