Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.
The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages.
Older children, interestingly, are more likely, not less likely, than younger children to faithfully imitate actions unnecessary to a task at hand, reports Cornell research.
Policy Meets Design, a new course offered by the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, gives students real-world design experience in health care facilities.
Jorge de la Guardia, M.Eng. ’74, executive manager for the Panama Canal expansion, gave a Nov. 7 talk, “The Political and Economic Challenges for the Construction of the New Panama Canal,” on campus.
Cornell students traveled to New York in early October to attend More than 300 students, faculty, and professionals attended the 31st annual Cornell Real Estate Conference in New York City, Oct. 10-11.
