The United States might control much of the planet's wealth, but more than 10 percent of its households don't always have enough food to eat. One way to reduce the incidence of families running out of food, a significant nutrition study at Cornell has found, is education in food selection and resource management.
Interviews with illustrious African-Americans who are members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906, have been donated to Cornell University Library. (Dec. 7, 2009)
A supermarket checkout computer can identify thousands of different items by scanning the tiny barcode printed on the package. New technology developed at Cornell could make it just as easy to identify genes, pathogens, illegal drugs and other chemicals of interest by tagging them with color-coded probes made out of synthetic tree-shaped DNA. A research group headed by Dan Luo, Cornell assistant professor of biological engineering, has created "nanobarcodes" that fluoresce under ultraviolet light in a combination of colors that can be read by a computer scanner or observed with a fluorescent light microscope.
Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell, succeeded associate professor Jane Mt. Pleasant effective July 1. (July 25, 2008)
Visiting campus May 21-24 to host workshops with Stony Brook University's Center for Communicating Science, Alda implored faculty members to skip the jargon and instead tell stories and make personal, emotional connections.
Barrett Keene, Ph.D. '13, is walking from Miami to San Francisco. En route, he will raise money and awareness for poor children and conduct dissertation research on teacher-leaders.
People -- especially overweight people -- consume up to 50 percent more calories when they eat low-fat versions of snack foods than when they eat the regular versions, finds a study by Cornell's Brian Wansink.
Last winter's mish-mash of weather sent bird-watchers to their field guides as species showed up where they're usually not. Documenting irruptions of seldom-seen species throughout North America.
An oversized, flatter and adjustable computer mouse with built-in palm support could lower the risk for carpal tunnel syndrome and other wrist injuries, according to a new study by Cornell University ergonomists.
Cornell neurobiologist Andrew Bass found that the neural network behind sound production in vertebrates can be traced back to an era long before the first animals ventured onto land. (July 17, 2008)