In many recent large earthquakes - such as in Northridge, Calif., in 1994 and in Kobe, Japan, in 1995 - some of the most alarming damage was to buried natural gas pipelines, most of them curving along rights-of-way using vulnerable elbow joints.
The Cornell University water system currently complies with all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drinking water standards, including the standards for haloacetic acids, based on May 2003 testing results, reports James Grieger of the university's Department of Environmental Health and Safety. The EPA maximum contamination limit for haloacetic acids is a rolling annual average (RAA) of 60 parts per billion (ppb). Cornell's current RAA is 49 ppb. The current quarterly average is 38 ppb. (June 09, 2003)
The Cornell Board of Trustees has approved a 4.9 percent tuition increase for undergraduate students in the university's endowed colleges, and a 5.1 increase for those in the contract colleges.
Tuition for Cornell's Graduate School will drop by 10.1 percent next year for students in research-degree programs affiliated with the endowed colleges, and it will fall by about another 30 percent over the next three years, Dean Alison G. Power has announced. (Jan. 31, 2008)
Professor George Milkovich's global classroom is truly something new and different. Milkovich has been on the faculty of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations for 20 years.
The Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. (May 21, 2007)
Cornell's summer day camp for children of employees is now accepting registrations for the 1997 season. University Summer Day Camp will be held June 24 through Aug. 15, in two-week sessions. Attendance is limited to children who will enter grades one through eight this fall.
A team of Cornell researchers has created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gasses under several atmospheres of pressure without popping. (Sept. 18, 2008)