Help! For this beetle invasion, give them a ticket to ride … out of town. The lily leaf beetle, an invasive species that dines on and destroys ornamental lily plants, has been found in New York state's North Country, say Cornell University entomologists.
Two Cornell University graduate students have received generous graduate fellowships from the Semiconductor Research Corp., the microchip industry's long-term research consortium.
United Auto Workers Local 2300 and Cornell today announced that the union, which represents more than 1,075 Cornell service and maintenance employees, has ratified a new, four-year agreement with the university, following several weeks of bargaining. The current agreement will expire June 30, 2001.
It doesn't take much imagination to see that preventing falls, brightening dark and depressing spaces, and generally making environments habitable can be among the most important elements for improving the health of the elderly.
Barbara Baird, a leading researcher in the allergic immune response system at the molecular level, has been named director of Cornell University's Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC).
Apolo Nsibambi, prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, will speak at Cornell at noon Monday, July 2, in the Founder's Room of Anabel Taylor Hall. His talk is titled "Ugandan Elections of March 2001: Political and Constitutional Significance."
How American adults and preschool children recall their personal memories are consistently different from the way indigenous Chinese do, finds a Cornell University developmental psychologist.
The long-term health benefits to Chinese and other Asian people who have traditionally existed on a primarily plant-based diet might be lost as more people in Asia switch to a Western-style diet that is rich in animal-based foods.
The telecommunications services industry continues to undergo major technological changes affecting the nature of work, skills, training and income in a commercial sector vital to the international competitiveness of the U.S. economy. To analyze the consequences of technological changes, employees within this sector, two professors in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations have launched a follow-up study.
A Cornell-led research group comprising 25 faculty members from six institutions has been awarded a $19.6 million, five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to build a structural biology research facility.
The Early Lung Cancer Action Project, a nine-year-old project led by New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, has already demonstrated that an initial "baseline" screening of high-risk persons by low-dose advanced computed tomography can detect lung cancer at earlier, presumably more curable stages than ordinary x-ray.
