In many recent large earthquakes - such as in Northridge, Calif., in 1994 and in Kobe, Japan, in 1995 - some of the most alarming damage was to buried natural gas pipelines, most of them curving along rights-of-way using vulnerable elbow joints.
Cornell has been named a "College of the Year" by TIME magazine and The Princeton Review for its successful and innovative writing program, the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Michael Lynn worked his way through college hustling for tips as a waiter, then turned the study of tipping into an academic career. This latest study finds that while tips are rewards for services rendered, there remains an element of unpredictability, even mystery, about tipping that makes it an unreliable measure of server performance.
For at least the past two summers, high amounts of ground-level ozone - a pollutant commonly called 'smog' - have seriously retarded the growth of ozone-sensitive white clover in agricultural areas of Long Island, N.Y.
Here's a botanical twist: The more stress that is placed on wild populations of St. John's wort, the more effective the plant might be in warding off human depression.
When NASA today announced its intention to send two rover exploration vehicles to Mars on its previously announced 2003 space shot, it introduced the ambitious venture with a two-minute, computer-generated video that dramatizes the mission with startling clarity and accuracy.
Cornell has announced the fifth annual Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST), a community service project coordinated by the university's Public Service Center.
Investments in upstate New York's Canal Corridor communities are generating a much broader range of jobs, among them high-skilled, high-paying jobs throughout the region, a Cornell University study released today shows.
Twenty-six black and Hispanic high school students from Washington, D.C., will learn that a university education is within their reach when they are hosted by Cornell University urban planning students and professors this Aug. 9-13.
Beebe Lake will be a lake largely without water this month when Cornell Grounds Department, at the request of Cornell Plantations, undertakes a partial dredging of the lake to remove sediment from the east end.
Cornell Plantations and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell have created a special garden that displays genetic diversity from bitter to sweet by tracing the history and development of the tomato. It is open to the public at Plantations' Pounder Heritage Vegetable Garden.
