Young people who participate in New York state 4-H clubs do better in school, are more motivated to help others and achieve more than other kids who both do and do not participate in other kinds of group programs and clubs, according to a two-year Cornell study.
Aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limits crop production in as much as half the world's arable land. Now, Cornell researchers have cloned a novel aluminum-tolerant gene in sorghum and expect to have genetically engineered aluminum-tolerant sorghum lines by next year. (Aug. 27, 2007)
Ted Lowi will receive the American Political Science Association's 2008 James Madison Award, which recognizes a career of scholarly excellence. It is one of the highest accolades of the profession. (April 10, 2008)
In a decision dated Jan. 7, 1999, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in Albany, unanimously upheld the dismissal, in its entirety, of a lawsuit brought by Professor James Maas against Cornell.
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.
The Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) has announced the recipients of its biannual small-grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support for fall 2010.
With modern computing power, data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service, law enforcement agencies and other sources can be combined to answer important public policy questions. The trick is to do this without violating people's privacy.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) system plans to implement several minor service revisions this Thursday, Feb. 24. Area riders should look for time schedule changes, route changes, and relocated bus stops.
Cornell is the lead institution in a new national center for research on electric power systems. It is funded by the NSF, electric utility companies, the Electric Power Research Institute and the participating educational institutions.
Lucille (Neumann) Wright, a librarian at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Library who also did agricultural bibliographical work in Cornell's Mann Library, died Aug. 25. (Sept. 15, 2008)