Antibiotics are everywhere -- from the dry cleaners to your soap dispenser -- killing off the bacteria that threaten to make you sick. But a sterile, antiseptic world might do more harm than good, and the onslaught of antibiotics might undermine their very purpose.
After fostering almost a decade of innovative educational, research and business initiatives at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, Robert J. Swieringa, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean, will step down at the end of…
Carol Bellamy, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), will be the 2002 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, March 4 and 5. Bellamy, who most recently has been working on behalf of UNICEF with the children of war-torn Afghanistan, will present the Bartels Fellowship Lecture Monday, March 4, at 8 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall on campus. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held in the Statler foyer. (February 14, 2002)
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $538,450 to the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University for the fourth phase of a long-term preservation project, called the National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature. This project will keep historically significant agricultural books and documents from being lost to natural decay. (January 9, 2003)
If you're dreaming of a white Christmas in the Northeast, keep dreaming. For this holiday season, the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell has completely revised its annual white Christmas probability statistics.
NEW YORK -- New York City hosts its fair share of art exhibits, fashion shows and Fifth Avenue parades. But when it's an art exhibit at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations in New York City (ILR-NYC), Cornell Design League's New York City debut show or the Big Red Band marching down Fifth Avenue after a Columbia football game, Big Red in the city takes note. Cornell and Cornellians are all over the city, on and off the New York City "campus." The Cornell University-New York City (CU-NYC) campus stretches from the southern tip of Manhattan, up the island to Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side.
To preserve and make available worldwide the most important and influential volumes on the history of home economics, Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University will digitize the top 1,500 documents – some 450,000 pages – in the field, making them easily available on the World Wide Web.
John W. Fitzpatrick, the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been elected president of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).
This month marks the fifth year of Cornell University's bias response program. The universitywide program addresses bias activities based on race, national origin, sexual orientation and gender that were not previously addressed through existing discrimination complaint processes. (December 12, 2005)