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.
A public information session and meeting will be conducted Tuesday, March 10, at the DeWitt Middle School on Warren Road to brief members of the community on the status of Cornell's former radiation disposal site in Lansing.
An unprecedented collaboration among a drug company, a university and conservationists will result in a search for new medicinal compounds that might be contained in fungi on a nature preserve in upstate New York. It will be the first survey of its kind in a temperate zone habitat.
A consortium of eight New York colleges and universities, including Cornell, will receive grants to support connection to a special high-speed computer network as part of a National Science Foundation grant announced by President Bill Clinton yesterday (Feb. 26).
The Book of Love (Norton 1998), an anthology of writings about love, edited by writer Diane Ackerman and novelist Jeanne Mackin, takes on that ancient and heart-stoppingly contemporary question, what is love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang," writes Ackerman in her introduction.
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Lang and other experts on international trade will offer insight into a controversial new international investment agreement Friday, March 6, at the Cornell Law School.
