People, including professional bartenders, pour 20 to 30 percent more liquor into short, squat glasses than into tall, thin ones, finds a study by Cornell Professor Brian Wansink, published in a December 2005 issue of the British Medical Journal. Wansink thinks the vertical-horizontal optical illusion is the reason. (December 22, 2005)
Cornell University Vice President Tommy Bruce has issued the following statement on the proposal by Northwest Airlines to bring new air service to Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.
The future of particle physics in the United States has never been as imperiled as it is now, says economist Harold Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University. Failure to act, he says, could mean missing out on…
Urie Bronfenbrenner, a co-founder of the national Head Start program and widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology, child-rearing and human ecology died on Sept. 25.
Position papers from an international conference held at Cornell in the spring of 2004, "Inevitable Alliance? European-American Relations After the Iraq Invasion," have been revised and reintroduced as a book: "Partner of Rivals? European-American Relations After Iraq," co-edited by Matthew Evangelista of Cornell and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi of Catholic University in Milan.
New virulent types of the potato late blight pathogen have emerged in Russia, threatening farmers and consumers with the destruction of an essential staple crop there, according to the Cornell-Eastern Europe-Mexico (CEEM) Potato Late Blight Program.
Many New York state dairy farmers, who have suffered for two decades without affordable, disease-resistant forage to supplement grass for their animals, are getting their fields of dreams.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish a national gene data research center, the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, at Cornell. Judy St. John, an associate deputy administrator with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, made the announcement Jan. 17 in San Diego at the Plant and Animal Genome VII Conference.
An interactive family forum on global warming and a series of hands-on science activities for children and families were featured at Ithaca's Sciencenter Feb. 17. (Feb. 20, 2007)
Peter Neufeld, co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (Doubleday, 2000) and an outspoken advocate for the rights of the wrongly accused, will speak at Cornell University Law School.