Thousands of volunteers have a new assignment from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – documenting the impact of West Nile virus while counting birds for the 2002-03 season of Project FeederWatch.
Although breast pumping has gotten easier with new pumps, few studies have looked at the effects of milk expression on the health of infants and mothers, says a Cornell nutritionist. (July 6, 2011)
Ronald R. Kline has been named the first holder of a new chair in the ethics and history of professional engineering in Cornell University's College of Engineering. Kline is professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and of science and technology studies. The chair, the Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Jr. Professor in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering, was endowed in 2000 with a gift from alumnus Harry Bovay, civil and environmental engineering, Cornell class of 1936, and his wife, Sue. It will become part of a campuswide initiative that is teaching ethics throughout the disciplines, funded through a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Bovays have established a similar chair at Texas A&M University. (June 17, 2003)
Heart attack victims who make it to the hospital in time to receive medical attention are four to five times more likely to survive compared with those who don't make it to a hospital promptly, according to a new Cornell study.
Charles R. Fay, deputy director of the Cornell Center for the Environment, has been named the university's vice provost for research administration. Fay succeeds Jack W. Lowe, who is retiring as executive vice provost for research.
The future of information technology -- from wireless communications to new imaging systems -- is the topic of the 1996 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 12 and 13 at Cornell.
In the last decade of the 20th century, we saw a virtual cottage industry of books and films on the Holocaust, everything from an unexpurgated 'Diary of Anne Frank' to Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning tragicomic film 'Life Is Beautiful.'