Robert C. Baker, the Cornell University poultry science and food science professor who helped develop chicken nuggets, turkey ham, and poultry hot dogs into ubiquitous American fare, and who created the famous Cornell chicken…
Jeff Tester, Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at Cornell, received the Special Achievement Award of the Geothermal Resources Council Oct. 26 in San Diego. (Oct. 28, 2011)
More than 100 City and Regional Planning alumni will return to campus Oct. 15-16 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of planning at Cornell, with events including alumni panels and an exhibit. (Oct. 6, 2010)
On April 25, Cornell Information Technologies rolled out its newest effort to strengthen electronic security by moving to enforce stronger passwords for NetIDs. The NetID and password combination is your private key to a wide range of services -- employee benefits, student grades, e-mail, to name a few -- that are provided by and restricted to the Cornell community. What this means to current faculty, staff and students is that the next time they change their NetID passwords, they will have to follow new, more stringent rules.
Patients who develop bacterial endocarditis have an elevated risk of stroke beginning four months before, and up to five months after diagnosis – a period significantly longer than previously reported.
Even people who seemed resilient but were close to the World Trade Center on 9/11 have brains that are more reactive to emotional stimuli than those who were more than 200 miles away. The study is one of the first to look at the effects of trauma on the brains of healthy people. (May 6, 2007)
A partnership between the library, CIT and the Lab of Ornithology seeks to save information across Cornell that is stored on orphaned media and in danger of decay and loss.
Plans for Duffield Hall, a new research center facility aimed at keeping Cornell a leader in nanotechnology, have been submitted to the city of Ithaca, beginning the environmental and site-plan review processes.
Instead of towing, which can leave a motorist stranded and can cost $100, Transportation Services will use wheel immobilizers, which are less costly to the driver, for some parking violations. (May 31, 2012)