Like the spiders she studies, Linda Rayor -- senior research associate of arthropod behavior at Cornell -- spins webs. Her webs, however, aren't to snag prey but to capture the scientific imagination of people of all ages. Using…
When it comes to candy, it is out of sight, out of the mouth, a Cornell University researcher finds.
The study finds that women eat more than twice as many Hershey Kisses when they are in clear containers on their desks than…
A new professional organization, the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), with its own peer-reviewed journal, is being launched by a Cornell University professor. His purpose is to bring together people who…
NEW YORK -- Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) are partnering with Lockheed Martin to develop a computerized system to help hospitals nationwide plan for and deal with mass casualties from disasters such…
With no known enemies in North America, two types of invasive vines are growing rampant in forests and fields, threatening reforestation, fragile butterfly populations and bird habitats.
NEW YORK -- At an unusual international labor conference in New York City, Feb. 9-11, trade unionists and scholars will strategize about the role of the labor movement in a globalized world.
"Global Companies-Global Unions…
To give consumers low- and no-cost energy tips to save money, Cornell Cooperative Extensions associations offered more than 335 free workshops in 30 counties in New York state. Another 135 workshops are scheduled for the upcoming months.
John W. Kronik, professor emeritus of Spanish literature in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, died Jan. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 74.
Kronik joined the Cornell faculty in 1966 from the University of…
You wouldn't think a plant pathology text with the title "Diseases of Trees and Shrubs" could double as a coffee-table book. But given its subject matter, the handsomely designed and revised second edition of Wayne A. Sinclair's…
GUANACASTE, Costa Rica -- Xavier Torres began working as a cook while he was an undergraduate more than a decade ago, but his career has really been cooking since he earned his master's of management in hospitality (MMH) degree…
On Saturday, Feb. 18, friends and former colleagues of A.R. "Archie" Ammons don't expect to see his ghost sitting in the Temple of Zeus on the Cornell campus, even though the late Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell would have turned 80 on that day.
Isabel Hull, the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell, has won the 2005 Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award for 'Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany'.
