Bruce S. Raynor, secretary-treasurer of UNITE, the pre-eminent textile and apparel union in North America, is the recipient of the 1999 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
Cornell biologists who study dwindling populations of one of the rarest mammals in North America have found another reason to let "natural" fires burn. Without lightning-sparked fires every 10 to 12 years, they say, pine trees are isolating Northern Idaho ground squirrels into shrinking groups.
Cornell's food scientists have for the first time made publicly available on the World Wide Web a database of bacterial, genetic "fingerprints." The database includes food pathogens and so-called "probiotic" beneficial bacteria that are ingredients in many health foods and beverages.
Karl J. Siebert, professor of food science, will receive the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction at the society's annual meeting in Phoenix on June 23.
Students at Lansing High School are participating in the first field test of a robot vehicle that will explore the surface of Mars in the early years of the new century.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected two Cornell faculty members, physics professor Robert O. Pohl and biochemistry professor Jeffrey W. Roberts, as new members.
When small groups of workers gather to make decisions, all of them want a chance to share their opinions, and that's not a bad idea, says Randall Peterson, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Terry Plater is the new associate dean for academic affairs in Cornell's Graduate School. She assumed her position in January 1999, succeeding Eleanor Reynolds, who retired in the fall 1998 semester.
Red Rover is just a playground game to most schoolchildren. But to fifth-graders at Caroline Elementary School in Ithaca, it is a name for serious scientific inquiry.
