Giving a 1 percent raise boosts employee job performance by roughly 2 percent, but offering that same money in the form of a bonus that is strongly linked to a job well done can improve job performance by almost 20 percent, finds…
Saturday's (May 27) Commencement highlights included Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine's Hooding Ceremony, ROTC commissioning and the Cornell President and Trustees Parent Reception.
The Veterinary College's…
Some of the hottest debates raging in America today hinge on the extent to which governments can, or should, regulate human relationships. Should states hold parents accountable for their children's crimes? Restrict no-fault divorces? Prohibit same-sex marriages? Addressing such questions, commentators often lament the loss of propriety that prevailed early in this century, when more families were intact, more morals adhered to.
With projections of 9.5 billion people by 2050, humankind faces the challenge of feeding modern diets to additional mouths while using the same amounts of water, fertilizer and arable land as today.
John Hopcroft, the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, has been awarded the Harry M. Goode award of the IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the study of algorithms and their applications in information processing. (November 29, 2005)
To kick off the yearlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Family Life Development Center (FLDC) at Cornell, Nancy Walker, a developmental psychologist and researcher from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will give two talks on children and the law, Tuesday, Dec. 1.
Fingerprint identification, which recently was ruled by a Philadelphia federal judge to be scientifically flawed as evidence, is unlikely to be replaced by DNA profiling in the courts, says a Cornell researcher.
The Cornell Southeast Asia Program will host the visit of Indonesia's most accomplished prose writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, to Central New York, April 15-20.
Twenty students, a faculty member and two administrators from three universities in India have just competed a two-week trip to Cornell, capping off a semester with the joint Cornell-India course, Agriculture in Developing…