Cornell employees and retirees have pledged $492,000 for the campus portion of the 1997 campaign for United Way of Tompkins County, exceeding the campus goal. In addition, the countywide campaign exceeded its $1.46 million goal.
Iain D. Boyd, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been selected to receive the 1998 Lawrence Sperry Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Cornell Professor Emeritus Alfred E. Kahn is the recipient of the 1997 Welch Pogue Award. The award, presented by Aviation Week Group, publishers of Aviation Week & Space Technology,, honors a visionary and prominent leader's lifetime contributions to aviation.
Overweight and obese women have significantly less success breast-feeding their babies than their normal-weight counterparts, according to a new Cornell/Bassett Hospital study, and biological factors largely may be why.
Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, a Cornell professor participated in an Internet discussion Wednesday (Jan. 7) to debunk and denounce the effort.
As Buddy, the new First Pup in the White House, becomes more oval and Socks recoils in horror, Cornell veterinarians have some unsolicited advice for the Clintons: Avoid overfeeding and overexercising Buddy, and give the First Cat a "dog-free zone."
When refugees sell or barter food, it's not always an indication that they've been given too much food relief, as donors assume, but because they are desperate to obtain different food, such as salt, necessary for survival.
To offer a healthful alternative to the 1992 U.S. Food Guide Pyramid, Cornell University and Harvard University researchers have teamed up with other experts in unveiling an official Vegetarian Diet Pyramid. (Jan. 7, 1998)
Jean McKelvey, the first faculty member of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first woman to serve as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, died Jan. 5 in Rochester, N.Y. She was 89.
November capped a cool autumn in the Northeast, making it the fifth month in a row of average temperatures below the 30-year normal, according to Keith Eggleston at the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
