Stephen Kresovich, professor of plant breeding and director of the Institute for Genomic Diversity at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies.
"Managing a Hispanic Workforce" is the subject of two one-day conferences designed for dairy farm managers. The conferences, sponsored by Cornell University and Pennsylvania State University, will be held Jan. 16, 2001, in Harrisburg, Pa., and Jan. 18, 2001, in Rochester, N.Y.
When a beam of X-rays is fired through a crystallized protein sample, the beam is scattered into a pattern that depends on the arrangement of atoms in the crystal. By decoding that pattern, experts can find the arrangement of the atoms and the shape of the protein molecule.
A book linking the world-renowned Salzburg Music Festival with Austria's current political flirtation with the right wing has won a top prize in Austria. Cornell professor of history Michael Steinberg's book Austria as Theater and Ideology.
NBC's Robert C. Wright will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
For the first time, Cornell University will provide university-funded health insurance for the majority of its graduate students. The Cornell Board of Trustees at its regular meeting Oct. 28 approved the recommendation.
Carol L. Nolan, director of biopharmaceutical technical operations for Glaxo SmithKline, the multinational pharmaceutical concern, and a 1973 Cornell University alumna, will be on campus Nov. 2, to deliver the seventh annual Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture.
Morris Dees, founder and director of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a noted fighter against violent hate groups, will deliver the keynote address for a conference on religion and human rights Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
After analyzing data from 1999-2000, the warmest winter in 105 years, researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are looking to a continent-wide network of volunteers to answer the question: Where will North American birds turn up next?
An international team of eight "satellite hunters," astronomers who pluck tiny specks of light out of the distant solar system, has discovered four new outer moons of Saturn orbiting at least 15 million kilometers from the surface of the giant planet.
A Cornell parent-education program has shown it can triple the likelihood that parents will discuss risk reduction and related information about HIV, the AIDS virus, with their children. The program also significantly increases the likelihood that the parents themselves will make personal risk behavior changes and obtain HIV testing.
A surgical procedure to prevent strokes, involving the removal of plaque from the carotid artery, has a greater chance of ending in the death of the patient when the surgery is performed by surgeons who have been in practice the longest, according to a new Cornell study.
