Hotel demand in large cities fluctuates more in response to personal income than to changes in hotel prices, according to a new study issued by the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research.
NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months. The mission will be extended through September 2006.
Robin Hadlock Seeley, a Cornell marine biologist, spearheaded an invasive species survey of Cobscook Bay, Maine, that has discovered a sea squirt there that could potentially threaten the important fishing area.
New York, NY (November 22, 2002) -- An innovative and sophisticated computer simulation model can help public health officials and emergency planners to prepare a public health response in case of bioterrorist attack, a study by scientists in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College has demonstrated. The simulation model, which predicts staffing requirements for antibiotic or vaccine dispensing centers, should help remedy a potential gap in current local, state, and national bioterrorism preparedness.The study, authored by Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, Dr. Alvin I. Mushlin and Dr. Mark A. Callahan, first appeared in the current issue of the journal "Medical Decision Making."
A new, essentially inexhaustible source of energy for the 21st century may result from experiments under way at Cornell University's Laboratory for Plasma Studies.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Digitize mail and paper files so employees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environment and provide alcohol swabs and cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free. These are but a few of the "best alternative office practices" gleaned from more than 25 innovative companies and summarized in the new book "Managing the Reinvented Workplace" (International Development Research Council, 1996) by Cornell University professors and organizational ecologists William Sims, Ph.D., and Franklin Becker, Ph.D., with Michael Joroff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With ecological viability threatened, world resources draining, the population burgeoning and despair running rampant, the end is nigh. Larry Cathles, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, begs to differ.
Barbara Baird, a leading researcher in the allergic immune response system at the molecular level, has been named director of Cornell University's Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC).
ST. LOUIS -- There were plenty of reasons to camp out inside the cavernous America's Center convention hall in St. Louis last weekend. They included in-depth discussions on biological imaging, black holes and the evolution of…