Sloppy Slope Jolt is the winning ice cream flavor in the annual ice cream-making competition in Cornell University's Food Science 101. It references Cornell's Libe slope -- caffeine for studying and the indulgence of Slope Day with brownies, hazelnuts and caramel. (December 06, 2005)
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations will hold a symposium in memory of noted Cornell sociologist William Foote Whyte, Friday, April 6, at 2 p.m. in Room 115 of Ives Hall on campus.
Four clothing, textile and art exhibits are coinciding with the centennial celebration for Cornell University's College of Human Ecology this coming weekend, March 30-31. One exhibit, which focuses on fashions of the 20th century and their interactions with art, is paired with a show of contemporary works of art in which clothing and dress are the subject matter; both are in the university's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The third exhibit, featuring children's clothing, is in the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection Gallery (on the third floor of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall). All three exhibits coincide with the centennial celebration this week but will continue until June 17.
Distinguishing the difference between the aroma of pepperoni pizza and boiling cabbage is not as simple as it seems for everyone. Some people have a heightened sense of smell and can be overwhelmed by aromas.
John Silcox, the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering and director of the Materials Science Center at Cornell, has won the 1996 Distinguished Scientist Award in the Physical Sciences from the Microscopy Society of America.
This fall, Cornell will conduct a one-year experiment in legal downloading of music. A campuswide site license for the Napster online music service will provide students with streaming and downloading access to the company's library of more than 750,000 songs.
A Cornell University study finds that small-scale, team-oriented offices with few Dilbert-like panels are more effective work environments than private, closed offices because they more readily foster communication, cohesiveness and organizational learning among co-workers without undermining their ability to concentrate, the study finds. "Surprisingly, one-person closed offices, often preferred by workers and seen as the Shangri-la of office designs, were not universally viewed as the best or most effective work environment," concludes Franklin Becker, director of the Cornell International Workplace Studies Program (IWSP), and his colleague, William Sims. Both are professors of facility planning and management and human-environment relations in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell. (February 18, 2002)
The legal battle that threatens to keep Steven Spielberg's slavery film, Amistad, from opening next week moves to the Internet. The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell has devoted a world wide web site to the case.
Faculty, curators and even graduate students culled their collections, and more than 2,000 books were collected for the Center of Oriental Studies at Vilnius University. (November 23, 2005)
Cornell astronomers have been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and build an infrared camera called FORCAST, which will be among the main instruments aboard the space agency's newest airborne observatory.