Cornell alumnus Robert G. Laughlin, whose research at Procter & Gamble Co. has contributed to a number of well-known household products, has donated $2.5 million to endow a new named professorship in the university's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Native Americas, a journal published by the Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, won six media awards at the 1999 Native American Journalists Association's annual awards held in Seattle in July.
Headline-grabbing die-offs of sea life could be just the tip of the iceberg as global warming and pollution allow old diseases to find new hosts, 13 biologists predict in this week's issue (Sept. 3, 1999) of the journal Science.
Only hungry babies and grown-up biologists worry whether there are enough mammary glands to go around. Naked mole-rat mothers don't worry. Even when a female produces more than two dozen pups.
Just one firefly, with its poisonous lucibufagin chemicals, is enough to kill a lizard, a lesson that American zookeepers and pet owners are learning the hard way. Some of the most popular lizards in zoos and private collections are from parts of the world without poisonous fireflies.
Beth E. Clark, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Astronomy for the past three years, has been named by NASA to lead a research team for history's first asteroid sample return mission.
Butterflies caught by Vladimir Nabokov, a manuscript scrawled by James Joyce and an assortment of brains, bird songs, fossils, fish and flowers are all part of the many object collections Cornell owns.
Having his acclaimed book of literary criticism, "The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition," ranked as No. 25 in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books written in English during the past 100 years doesn't seem to have fazed M.H. (Mike) Abrams.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the planet Mars. Nearly four times the size of the state of Texas, the storm is composed of water-ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Martian storms.
