Technological advances will continue to have profound effects on manufacturing firms. But the most important changes will come in the ways companies manage their supply chains and inventories, said L. Joseph Thomas, professor of manufacturing at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
A new laser-based process to study the regulation of signal transmission between cells of the nervous system has led to the discovery of several compounds that could become the basis for a cocaine-poisoning treatment.
When they work at the same university, highly educated couples with children report much more job, marriage and family satisfaction and less stress balancing the demands of work and family than other dual-earner professional couples where one spouse works at a university and the other works elsewhere.
For the first time, researchers have identified how cabbage looper caterpillars in the field develop resistance to the most successful and widely used biological insecticide.
For beef producers looking for new ways to economically and efficiently feed their cattle, Cornell animal researchers have shown the effectiveness of an unusual diet: Let them eat bread -- and other commercial bakery leftovers and scraps.
A vigorous advocate for healthful and environmentally "green" workplaces, Edward Cohen-Rosenthal died Jan. 19 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Baltimore, Md., after a six-year struggle with cancer.
Cornell paleontologists are enlisting the public's help in the search for some unusual 375 million-year-old fossils in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania.
Professors Richard Swedberg and Trevor Pinch shared numerous details, uncovered in their research about the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1949 visit to Ithaca, in a talk on campus Feb. 27. (March 1, 2012)
Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences are invited to propose project to digitize collections that will support visual learning, teaching and research. (Feb. 2, 2011)
Top scholars in psychological science present state-of-the-art thinking on personality disorders and developmental psychopathology in two new books edited by Cornell clinical psychologist and psychopathology researcher Mark F. Lenzenweger: Major Theories of Personality Disorder and Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology