On Feb. 9 some of the first recipients of the Family Development Credential (FDC), developed at Cornell and based on research at Cornell over the past 20 years, will be recognized in a noontime ceremony in Albany.
The persistence of a Cornell researcher and the prompt use of his unique database are credited for helping limit the death toll in a recent outbreak of 'Listeria monocytogenes,' a virulent food-borne pathogen.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its meeting in New York City on Jan. 30, approved a 1999-00 budget that calls for a 4.3 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
Children in elementary schools may be placed at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for musculoskeletal development, according to a Cornell University study.
At the crossroads of arts and sciences at Cornell stands a very popular attraction: a Monday afternoon lecture series on "Mind and Memory," that has fast become an academic rite of spring.
Savory maple syrup, your dining room table and van loads of tourists eager to enjoy the changing autumnal colors may be history, should scientists lose the war against the hardwood trees' number-one enemy: the Asian long-horned beetle.
After the warmest year on record, how are our beloved birds faring? Bird enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds are being urged to help researchers find out by participating in the second Annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Corporate entrepreneurs in New York City will use distance learning techniques to give hands-on marketing advice to Cornell inventors on the university's upstate campus this Friday afternoon, Jan. 29. The Cornell Research Foundation offers more than 400 licenses to commercialize patentable technology invented or developed on the Cornell University campus. Among the most intriguing are:
Field studies conducted in the Amazon rain forest by Cornell undergraduate students of chemical ecology and published in the first issue of the first journal of its kind are beginning to answer some long-standing questions: Will a cup of lichen tea four times a day cure urinary tract infection or even gonorrhea?
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Jan. 27, 1999) issued a statement regarding freedom of speech and hate speech and harassment in the campus community.
Most football fans will be on tenterhooks until Super Bowl on Jan. 31, when the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons face off. But Douglas Stayman's students at Cornell will wait until the week following the main event to sit on the edge of their seats in rapt concentration.
