Denïz Omürgönülsen is the top winner of Cornell University School of Hotel Administration's prestigious 2000 Drown Prize. The Drown Prize, which comes with a $15,000 stipend, was established by hotelier Joseph W. Drown and is presented yearly to the Hotel School student who holds the promise of making a significant contribution to the hospitality industry.
Drug testing is most effective in reducing workers' compensation experience-rating modification factors in the first three years following the implementation of a program.
Surveying aquatic life from the Great Lakes to small ponds, ecologists at Cornell and the Institute of Ecosystem Studies have found that food-chain length — the number of mouths food passes through on the way to the top predators — is determined by the size of an ecosystem, not by the amount of available food energy.
Three of New York's leading research institutions announced the creation of a $160 million collaborative program in basic biological research sparked by a private donor who will contribute half the total investment.
Beef Field Day will be held Saturday, July 22, on the Cornell campus at Morrison Hall from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Cornell Department of Animal Science and the New York Beef Producers Association.
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Cornell University have announced plans to construct the technology platform that will pioneer the next generation model for digital libraries.
Cornell graduate students Andrew Harwood and Michael Lukianoff hope to create a wine growers' cooperative and winery in Virginia that will help farmers in depressed rural communities there replace their tobacco crops with biodynamically grown grapes.
Cornell's four national resource centers in Asian and Latin American studies received substantial three-year grants from the U.S. Department of Education totaling nearly $3.5 million.
Going digital is easier said than done. Especially for librarians, archivists and museum staff in charge of converting large, complex collections into digitized images that can be accessed online around the globe.
A new study portrays the paths of asteroids in the inner solar system as a vast Los Angeles-style traffic system crisscrossed with superhighways along which are hurtling huge, rocky projectiles.
Contrary to popular belief, buyers of new homes should know that the costs of supporting environmental protection don't boost the prices of new houses, a Cornell University housing expert concludes.
