In order to recognize Cornell students who have made strong public service contributions to local community agencies, the Cornell Public Service Center is accepting nominations for the first annual Community Spirit Awards. Up to 30 awards will be given in five categories.
Preschoolers whose families get federal food aid have much healthier diets than low-income children whose families are not getting assistance. And federally aided children are protected from iron and zinc deficiencies, according to a new Cornell study.
The Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute has been named the Best Law School Site by legal.online, a national Internet newsletter, in its Best of the Web awards.
Researchers who work with the incredibly small have long used the scanning tunneling microscope to make pictures of surfaces with such precision that individual atoms appear as bumps. With it, tiny structures can be built by moving one or a few atoms at a time.
Humans' use of antimicrobial spices developed in parallel with food-spoilage microorganisms, Cornell University biologists have demonstrated in a international survey of spice use in cooking. (March 4, 1998)
Five Cornell undergraduates have been selected to receive the 1998 Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee Awards. The awards, funded by an endowment from alumnus William F. Fuerst Jr. '39, recognize undergraduate library student workers for their exceptional performance, leadership and service to the campus.
The constant roar from jet aircraft can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, according to a new Cornell study. The health problems resulting from chronic airport noise, including higher blood pressure and boosted levels of stress hormones, the researchers say, may have lifelong effects.
Fans of hot, spicy cuisine can thank nasty bacteria and other foodborne pathogens for the recipes that come - not so coincidentally - from countries with hot climates.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will attend the summit meeting of the Council on Competitiveness at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 12 and 13.
The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell will offer a series of five lectures this spring as part of the course Housing and Feeding the Homeless. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, begin at 2:55 p.m. in 265 Statler Hall.
