Restaurant patrons tend to spend more money when they select their items from menus that don't use dollar signs, reports a new Cornell study. (Dec. 9, 2009)
A Cornell study has identified four strategies that restaurants use to reap higher wine sales: including the wine list on the food menu and listing prices without a dollar sign. (Dec. 9, 2009)
A new set of free training materials, 'The Eight-Step Approach to Controlling Food Costs' by J. Bruce Tracey, helps restaurant managers identify and eliminate extra food expenses. (Dec. 9, 2009)
The Student Assembly on Dec. 4 cut Cornell Cinema's student activity fee funding by $1 per student per year, overturning a previous decision to cut cinema funding by $2.40. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicts that 2010 will bring flat growth, high unemployment rates unlikely to budge, and continued turmoil in the housing market. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Last month, 48 undergraduates competed in the annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling, applying the modeling and simulation skills they have learned in class to a real-world problem. (Dec. 9, 2009)
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Interviews with illustrious African-Americans who are members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906, have been donated to Cornell University Library. (Dec. 7, 2009)
Cornell students designed winter boots that improve circulation and a jacket with built-in headphones for people in wheelchairs, among other products as part of a textiles course. (Dec. 7, 2009)
A $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will help researchers translate knowledge in social science into treatments, intervention programs and policies related to pain disorders. (Dec. 7, 2009)
