The Cornell Food Industry Management Distance Education Program is offering food-safety certification programs for food retailers at both the state and national levels. The Food Protection Certification Program was developed in cooperation with the Food Marketing Institute.
In 1940 near a small town in southern Poland called Oswiecim, close to the confluence of the Vistula and Sola rivers, the Germans built an enormous camp they called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and early 1945, according to the 'Encyclopedia Britannica,' between 1 million and 5 million people, many of them Jews, were killed.
In the past, wine made from New York state fruit, like strawberries, apples, cherries and peaches, and vegetables, like rhubarb, has been considered the ugly step-child of winemaking. That was then.
Three centuries of vegetable history are on display as crops in Cornell Plantations' Pounder Heritage Vegetable Garden reach their late-summer peak and university gardeners invite the public to inspect their handiwork.
Men and women seem to have an equal tendency to avoid dating people with eating disorders. But when it comes to obesity, men are far less accepting than women, says a new Cornell study.
Many people are unwittingly poisoning the environment by not maintaining septic systems, neglecting wells, overusing pesticides and dumping paint and motor oil on the ground, among other acts of carelessness, says a Cornell environmental chemist.
One Cornell Law School student helped a mentally impaired local man recover funds that had been mismanaged by a financial adviser. This is just one examples of how 120 Cornell law students each year donate between five and 25 hours a week as part of their clinical course work.
Cornell soon will be putting its electronics expertise to work as part of a national consortium of seven universities chosen to take part in an ambitious national semiconductor research effort.
The move of the Johnson Graduate School of Management into its new location in Cornell's venerable Sage Hall marks a milestone in adaptive reuse of historic buildings. The project team was led by The Hillier Group of Princeton, N.J.
Motorists and bicyclists on the Cornell campus will be greeted by a pleasant (and smooth) surprise this week. Tower Road, a main east-west route through the heart of campus, is opening ahead of schedule on its summer construction projects.
As economic models go, this one from Cornell could please most political palates: It offers great mileage and moderate taxes. One of the measures the U.S. Senate will consider when it takes up the environmental changes called for in an international treaty aimed at reducing global warming.
