A fortified, orange-flavored powdered drink, tested in Tanzania by Cornell researchers who found it can significantly help improve children's nutrition and growth, has been launched as a commercial product by Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) in the Philippines.
Geoffrey Coates, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, has been selected by 'Technology Review' magazine as one of 100 young innovators under the age of 35.
About three-quarters of middle-income, dual-earner couples in a study in upstate New York -- and almost all of those couples raising children -- "resist the demands of a greedy workplace" by scaling back their work commitments for the sake of their families and to have more discretionary time, according to a new Cornell study.
Cornell announced today that Daniel Usner, a highly regarded historian of American Indian-Colonial relations, will succeed Jane Mt. Pleasant as the director of the University's American Indian Program.
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
About three-quarters of middle-income, dual-earner couples in a study in upstate New York - and almost all of those couples raising children - "resist the demands of a greedy workplace" by scaling back their work commitments for the sake of their families.
A gala two-day event to celebrate the career and leadership of Dale R. Corson, Cornell's eighth president, will be held on campus Dec. 6 and 7. Corson was president of Cornell from 1969 to 1977.
A Cornell student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease. The student, a 19-year-old female sophomore, is suffering from meningococcemia, a severe bacterial infection in the bloodstream.
For just under two minutes a camera directed toward the south polar region of Mars will capture and store a series of about 20 images unique in the annals of planetary exploration: the surface of a planet (other than the moon) as seen from altitudes ranging from about 4 miles to only about 30 feet.
Yurij Pawluk, a junior in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has been selected as one of two undergraduate students from around the country to take part in the Judicial Internship Program at the U.S. Supreme Court in the spring semester.
Teams of Cornell computer science students took both first and second place in the Association for Computing Machinery Greater New York Regional Programming Contest held Nov. 7 at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
