A discovery reported in the latest edition of the journal Nature (June 13, 2002) – that fungi on the roots of some trees in the Northeastern United States help supply much-needed calcium in forest soils battered by acid rain – would seem to ease worries about the worrisome form of pollution.
Up to half of older Americans could postpone going into nursing homes if more group housing options were available, say two Cornell researchers. Although group living offers seniors lower-cost housing, independence, social interaction and a wide range of household and health services.
Top honors in university fund raising, alumni relations and magazine writing were among 15 national awards won by development and communications professionals at Cornell from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) this year.
The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) has awarded research grants to three faculty members and five graduate students to help advance the careers of women in academia through support of research leading to tenure and promotion and to the completion of dissertations.
When African women work outside the home, their families reap more income but often with potentially "deleterious consequences on the health of their very young children," according to new Cornell research.
Perfect weather -- temperatures in the 60s, the lightest of breezes and blue skies with postcard-perfect clouds -- graced Cornell University's 137th Commencement May 29, as about 5,600 graduates assembled on the Arts Quad for the academic procession to Schoellkopf Stadium.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has named the 1996 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, honoring their "effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students."
Cornell University engineering undergraduates swept the competition again this year at the annual five-day International Formula SAE collegiate design and motorsports competition at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, which ended May 19.
Katy Kaufman and her biology and physical science teacher Pam Vaughan from the town of Fordyce High School in Arkansas will set up a tent with displays about comets at the annual Fordyce on the Cottonbelt Festival.
Some people are never satisfied. First, nanotechnology researchers at Cornell built a device so sensitive it could detect the mass of a single bacterium - about 665 femtograms. Then they built one that could sense the presence of a single virus - about 1.5 femtograms. Now, with a refined technique, they have detected a single DNA molecule, weighing in at 995,000 Daltons - a shade more than 1 attogram - and can even count the number of DNA molecules attached to a single receptor by noting the difference in mass. (May 18, 2005)