The Cornell University Public Service Center has been awarded AmeriCorps funding by the Federal Corporation for National Service, the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, for the 2000-01 program year.
Got a milk mustache? You can enter it in a contest when the Milk Mustache Mobile bellies up to the Cornell Dairy Bar July 26 from 1 to 5 p.m. The Ithaca winner of the milk-mustache contest will compete for a spot in an advertisement to appear in ESPN Magazine.
The patenting of genes, or other scientific discoveries, need not interfere with the free exchange of information among scientists, and it is often the best way to bring the benefits of discoveries to the public, a Cornell University patent and licensing manager will tell Congress today (Thursday, July 13). James A. Severson, president of the Cornell Research Foundation, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Large portions of the Rocky Mountains may not be as pristine as once thought. According to a new study, cadmium is affecting the ptarmigan in mining areas and may threaten some populations of the bird with extinction. Cadmium from abandoned mines may also affect other wildlife species in the area, including deer, elk, moose, rabbits, beaver and other birds, the researchers predict.
A Board of Cooperative Educational Services program is aimed at helping students with learning disabilities early on. The Career Exploration Program is run by Bill Woodams.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has received a substantial increase in revenues from the sale of privately held stock that had been held by Cornell as a gift from the estate of George and Mary Rockwell.
In the wake of the nanoguitar, now there are 287,900 nanosaxophones. The tiny instrument images, carved on a silicon chip by engineers at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, together form a centimeter-square silhouette of President Bill Clinton playing his favorite musical instrument.
Cornell University's Lake Source Cooling project has entered the pilot-testing phase and is operating at about 25 percent of its full capacity to cool central campus facilities by utilizing the naturally cold water of Cayuga Lake.
Women with low body iron, yet who are not anemic, have a much harder time sustaining exercise and adapting to training, concludes a new Cornell study. But after a period of training, iron-deficient women who boost their body iron by taking supplements can improve their exercise endurance twice as much as iron-depleted women.
The genetic mechanism that through millennia of evolution has created plump and juicy fruits and vegetables could also be involved in the proliferation of human cancer cells. Plant biologists and computer scientists at Cornell University have essentially made a direct genetic connection between the evolutionary processes involved in plant growth and the processes involved in the growth of mammalian tumors.
Can you trust your analyst to pick the best performing stocks? Not always, suggests an award-winning study by two business school professors. When the analyst recommends investing in a newly public company whose initial public offering is underwritten by the corporate financing arm of the analyst's investment bank -- something that happens often -- the choice is likely to be biased and not the best, the study shows.
Human immunity to a virus has been triggered for the first time by a vaccine genetically engineered into a potato. The specific virus involved is the pervasive Norwalk virus - the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States and much of the developed world.
