Patsy Brannon, dean of the College of Human Ecology and professor of nutrition at Cornell University since 1999, today (July 29) announced her decision to return to teaching and research when her five-year term as dean ends May 30, 2004. She is a member of the faculty in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. She will take a year's sabbatical and will return full time to the faculty July 1, 2005. (July 29, 2003)
Sally Dutko calls her vibrant fiber art wall hangings "fabric paintings," and her work so impressed the jury at the 2005 Fine Arts Quilts national exhibition in Memphis last summer that she walked away with the First Place Award…
Low-level noise in open-style offices seems to result in higher levels of stress and lower task motivation, according to a new study by a Cornell University environmental psychologist. And, surprisingly, experienced workers in these mildly noisy offices make fewer ergonomic adjustments to their workstations than do workers in quiet offices.
Sandra M. Gilbert '57, the first M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell, will speak along with Abrams on literary topics Jan. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell plans to test its emergency alert system at noon Wednesday, Nov. 7, by sending voice and text messages to everyone in the campus community who has supplied emergency contact information. (Nov. 1, 2007)
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, will take flight May 25 along with the Cornell-built FORCAST (the Faint Object InfraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope). (May 24, 2010)
Young lambs may not need inoculation against enterotoxemia type D -- otherwise known as "overeating disease" -- until past the age of 6 weeks, according to Cornell animal scientists.
Children who do not consistently live with two biological parents are only half as likely to ever attend a selective college, even after researchers take into account factors such as income and parent education, according to a new Cornell study.