Health Awareness Week is making a grand return to Cornell University during the week of Jan. 27. The 22nd annual edition of campuswide health-related presentations and educational activities.
A just-released report to a bipartisan Congressional commission documented 48,417 U.S. jobs outsourced to other countries or publicly announced as being scheduled for outsourcing, from January through March 2004.
Carl E. Sagan, 62, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies died Dec. 20, 1996, in Seattle, Wash.
In a Science policy forum piece, co-author Laurie Drinkwater says that fertilizer is often used way too much or too little across the world, and both extremes have substantial human and environmental costs. (June 19, 2009)
Jean McKelvey, the first faculty member of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first woman to serve as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, died Jan. 5 in Rochester, N.Y. She was 89.
The five subpopulations of Asian rice all belong to one species, but their genetic structures are so different that, genetically speaking, they are almost like different species, a new study finds. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Understanding survival of a species can be a lot more complicated than meets the eye because ecosystems are so interrelated. In a recent study, a Cornell researcher discovered that host caterpillars that eat fungus-infected plants harbor more female than male wasp larvae by 2-to-1.