A detailed analysis of black carbon - the residue of burned organic matter - in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating climate change predictions. (Nov. 18, 2008)
The 86th annual, student-run Hotel Ezra Cornell, April 7-10, led by Managing Director Willis Cheng '11, focused on the hospitality industry's role in international business and the global economy. (April 12, 2011)
The natural gas that leaks from hydraulic fracturing processes will do more to aggravate global warming than mining coal, according to a Cornell study published in Climatic Change Letters. (April 11, 2011)
For an apple a day to keep the doctor away, it can't harbor any bacteria. So Cornell experts are looking at new ways of preventing E. coli from contaminating apple cider, an increasingly common public health concern.
Women who cook, eat and chat together also improve their diet together, according to a Cornell University study of a cooperative extension program. In fact, women on limited income who participated in the six-week Sisters in Health program reported they ate 40 percent more fruits and vegetables.
The Cornell campus is facing a winter of challenge as energy costs soar. Over the next few weeks, Chronicle Online will be presenting stories showing the extent of rising costs and how the Cornell community can help to keep them under control. (November 16, 2005)
Key pioneers of hip-hop, including DJ Afrika Bambaataa, will return to campus April 14-15 for an academic and musical symposium on the origins and lasting impact of the cultural movement. (April 7, 2011)
The late-bloomer whose high school grades aren't good enough to get him into a four-year college or research university; the student whose family can't afford four years of tuition at a private college but, with help, might be able to swing two years; the returning, nontraditional student who seeks a career in a field that requires specific training not offered at four-year programs, such as nursing. These are among the people who have made community colleges the most-popular choice of the majority of eligible college applicants today. Two-year colleges enroll about 55 percent of all freshmen and about 40 percent of all full-time freshmen throughout the United States, says Ronald G. Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI) and the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University. "The importance of the two-years is likely to continue to grow as state and federal budgets become tighter and enrollment expands," Ehrenberg says. Given those facts, "The Complex Community College" seems a fitting subject for this year's CHERI annual conference, which takes place on Cornell's campus Monday and Tuesday, (October 10, 2003)
When Theodore C. Bestor haunts the wharves of New England and the Tsukiji Wholesale Seafood Market in Tokyo, he's not just looking for really fresh fish. What the Cornell University social anthropologist is learning about Japanese expectations for imported seafood may aid the U.S. trade balance.
The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team presented its robot Nova before an audience of students, team advisers and others on Feb. 21.