On four consecutive Thursdays beginning Jan. 24, Sage Chapel invites the Cornell community is to bring a bowl, enjoy soup with hearty bread and listen to stories of hope from Ithaca community members.
The university has established an institutionwide hotline service, via an agreement with EthicsPoint Inc., that gives faculty, staff and students a way to anonymously report irregularities and other concerns.
By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers can 'stamp' nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive lithographic tools. (Oct. 16, 2008)
The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on the Cornell campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events. (Oct. 16, 2008)
Bonita S. Voiland, an executive at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital in Syracuse, has been named assistant dean for resources, marketing, development and public affairs at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine effective July 1.
Alfred Blumstein has spent 40 years offering a systems perspective for informing decisions and policies in crime-reduction efforts, incarceration and cost effectiveness. (Oct. 15, 2008)
Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or habitat. In other words, biologists can now reasonably estimate how much biomass is underground just by looking at the stems and leaves above ground. Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate to root biomass across the vast spectrum of land plants. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Arizona spent two years poring over data for a vast array of plants -- from weeds to bushes to trees -- in order to derive mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. (February 19, 2002)
Global environmental change could have devastating effects on human health unless professionals, from nutritionists to business leaders, respond promptly, warns a Cornell University public health expert.