A new Cornell University study found that while hotel managers and staff provided extraordinary personal service during the massive blackout of August 2003, many properties experienced significant operating failures after the lights went out -- and are not well- prepared for a future blackout. The study, by Robert Kwortnik, an assistant professor at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, looked at 93 hotels, from economy to luxury properties, that lost power when the outage struck the northeastern United States and Canada last summer. The affected hotels were without electricity for 16 hours on average and for as long as two days in some instances. One-quarter of the hoteliers surveyed had standby power to operate wide sections of their hotels, but those auxiliary systems failed for some properties. In many hotels, backup power to critical emergency systems failed after several hours. (April 05, 2004)
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, a magazine edited and published at Cornell, has received a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. (March 26, 2007)
A concerto, composed by Grammy nominee and Cornell professor of music Roberto Sierra, and perfectly timed images of the planet Saturn are now available on a new DVD.
An exclusive research and license agreement was announced today (June 14) by the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), Ithaca, N.Y., and Axis Genetics, PLC, Cambridge, England.
Alumni working in Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the United Football League discussed innovations in the sports management field at an Entrepreneurship@Cornell talk. (April 18, 2011)
For the first time, scientists have shown how the activity of a gene associated with normal human development, as well as the occurrence of cancer and several other diseases, is repressed epigenetically – by modifying not the DNA code of a gene, but instead the spool-like histone proteins around which DNA tightly wraps itself in the nucleus of cells in the body.
A new Cornell invention can clean up waste water from pesticides and textile processing on-site efficiently, inexpensively and without some of the problems of current technologies, say two Cornell environmental chemists.