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Cornell's Ganem receives Johnson & Johnson award for chemical research

Johnson & Johnson, the multinational medical products concern, has yet again shown its support of Cornell research by awarding a $270,000, three-year grant to Bruce Ganem.

'... to look up, and to see thousands of years condensed into a few meters ...'

POSTCARD FROM TEL DOR--Right now, Melissa Loewenstern is in the Iron Age. By summer's end, she hopes to land in the Bronze Age. This Cornell student is spending her summer excavating an archaeological site in Israel.

Utility lines relocation at Route 13 overpass to begin Monday

Utility lines buried under the Route 13 overpass at East Shore Drive in the Town of Ithaca will be relocated beginning Monday, July 20.

Clever chemistry keeps trend-setting beetle babies off the menu, Cornell scientists report

Naked, immobile and conspicuously colored, the squash beetle pupae would be easy picking for insect predators if they hadn't long ago perfected a science called combinatorial chemistry.

Astronomer confirms Cornell's new role in 2001 Mars lander mission

Cornell's astronomy department is working in a newly defined role on NASA's Mars Surveyor lander mission scheduled for launch in April 2001. Although the Cornell-led Athena Rover vehicle program will not be included in the mission as previously planned.

Cornell's Master of Industrial and Labor Relations is hot new degree for corporate human-resource managers

Some corporate recruiters walked away empty-handed from Cornell University this spring. All the graduates in a small, competitive degree program were hired months before commencement.

Cornell economists propose policy methods for eliminating child labor

World governments might be more successful in removing nearly 100 million children from the labor market by working to increase adult wages and employment rates rather than pursuing legislative action against child labor.

Alison Lurie publishes her 10th novel -- her first in 10 years

"At three a.m. on a windy late-November night, Jenny Walker woke in her historic house in an historic New England town, and sensed from the slope of her mattress and the chill of the flowered percale sheets that Wilkie Walker.

Studies: Fetal lead exposure may increase risk of asthma, allergies, cancer

Lead in the drinking water of pregnant rats causes long-term damage to the immune systems of their offspring, according to studies at the Cornell Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology.

Composting truth averts chemical consequences, new Cornell video proves

The raunchy reputation of backyard composting is both undeserved and unnecessary, according to waste-management educators at Cornell University.

Margaret Hendricks named development director at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine

Margaret Hendricks has joined the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine as director of development.

Cornell goes electronic for its global education program for food industry managers and workers

For the past 34 years, food industry employees across the United States and from distant regions of the globe have been mailing their assignments and completed exams to Cornell's Food Industry Distance Education Program.