The presidential and U.S. Senate races are not the only contests roiling the waters in Ithaca. On Nov. 7, residents will vote on a referendum that could allow fluoridation of the municipal water supply for the first time in the upstate city. A Cornell research class has found that while a vocal minority opposes fluoridation, city residents appear to support it.
It makes cents as well as sense to get your managers to live by their word and not over promise, a study by two professors at leading universities shows.
Galen D. Stucky, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will present the Herbert H. Johnson Memorial Lectures on campus Nov. 6.
A Cornell University research team has uncovered the mechanics of a critical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen that could have implications for the future of energy production.
Stephen Kresovich, professor of plant breeding and director of the Institute for Genomic Diversity at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies.
"Managing a Hispanic Workforce" is the subject of two one-day conferences designed for dairy farm managers. The conferences, sponsored by Cornell University and Pennsylvania State University, will be held Jan. 16, 2001, in Harrisburg, Pa., and Jan. 18, 2001, in Rochester, N.Y.
A book linking the world-renowned Salzburg Music Festival with Austria's current political flirtation with the right wing has won a top prize in Austria. Cornell professor of history Michael Steinberg's book Austria as Theater and Ideology.
NBC's Robert C. Wright will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
When a beam of X-rays is fired through a crystallized protein sample, the beam is scattered into a pattern that depends on the arrangement of atoms in the crystal. By decoding that pattern, experts can find the arrangement of the atoms and the shape of the protein molecule.
