Professors Jon C. Clardy of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Jonathan D. Culler of the Departments of English and of Comparative Literature have been appointed senior associate deans for the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected Upstate Farms of Rochester as producer of the highest quality milk in New York state. The annual selection was announced today (Aug. 28) at the New York State Fair's Dairy Day. The analytical tests are run at Cornell.
The young cheddar cheese at McCadam Cheese Co., Heuvelton, N.Y., has been judged the top cheese in New York state for 2000, beating out cheeses in all categories. The judging took place at Cornell University in mid-August and was on Aug. 28 at the New York State Fair's Dairy Day.
As unpleasant as it is, the nausea and vomiting of "morning sickness" experienced by two-thirds of pregnant women is Mother Nature's way of protecting mothers and fetuses from food-borne illness and also shielding the fetus from chemicals that can deform fetal organs at the most critical time in development.
The early spider catches the web site. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Cornell University have discovered how large female spiders in colonies are able to claim enough territory to rebuild their daily webs
Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend, NASA's mission to orbit and study a distant asteroid presented researchers with a glimpse of the birth of the solar system.
The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.
Cornell archaeologist Andrew Ramage was a Harvard University graduate student when he struck gold at an excavation site in Sardis, Turkey, in 1968. Ramage's detective work led to a one-of-a-kind discovery: a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first "millionaire."
"Living Nightmares: Facing the Growing Threat of Biological Terrorism" will be the subject of a talk to be given on the Cornell campus May 3 by Steven M. Block, professor of biological sciences and of applied physics at Stanford University.
