As the world population passes the 6 billion mark, pioneering work to guarantee food sustainability continues at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. the largest not-for-profit organization dedicated to plant research in the world, celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Workers who used computer software to remind occasionally them to assume good posture, take short breaks and occasionally stretch do more accurate work and as a result are more productive, according to a new Cornell study.
The integrated circuits of the future could possibly be made with a substrate of silicon with a thin film of polymer containing the transistors and the interconnections dropped on top. Cornell researchers awarded $1.7 million to study circuits that might lead to ear of 'disposable electronics.'
Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown Saturday, Oct. 2.
"Compassion and Commitment: Veterinary Medicine as a Model for the 21st Century" is the topic for Patricia "Patty" Olson in a Sept. 27 presentation at 5:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall I of the Veterinary Education Center.
From hepatitis prevention to virtual lab animals on a chip, five scientific advances with the potential to change society will be examined at a symposium on Monday, Oct. 11, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Cornell.
Mar'a Jesoes Bux, the 1999-2000 Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies at Cornell, will give the annual Einaudi Lecture Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House.
To train educators and youth coaches about aquatic life, more than two dozen New York City educators are goin' fishin' on Thursday, Sept. 23, in Central Park.
