For many dairy cows, summertime living isn't easy. In the northeastern United States, heat stress can make the animals more susceptible to mastitis, laminitis and acidosis. It can also adversely affect the growth rates of unborn calves and reduce a cow's capacity to make milk by as much as one-third.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University students were honored recently for their community-service efforts. The Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards were presented on Friday, April 25, to sophomore Jamila Cutliff, junior Hilary Himes and senior Debbie Warren. The award was established by alumni Gerald Robinson '54 and Margot Robinson '55, and Robert Appel '53 and Helen Appel '55. It was created to recognize and honor students who have had significant involvement in community service by providing support for their projects which address a community's social needs or problems. Three students are selected, and each receives $1,500 to further a community-service project that he or she has initiated and proposed.
After 10 days of digging out from the Blizzard of '96, temperatures across the northeastern and middle Atlantic regions of the United States have begun to rise in what folklore calls the "January Thaw."
With equipment so sensitive that it can locate clusters of electrons, Cornell University and University of Tokyo physicists have -- sort of -- explained puzzling behavior in a much-studied high-temperature superconductor, perhaps leading to a better understanding of how such superconductors work. It turns out that under certain conditions the electrons in the material pretty much ignore the atoms to which they are supposed to be attached, arranging themselves into a neat pattern that looks like a crystal lattice. The behavior occurs in a phase physicists have called a "pseudogap," but because the newly discovered arrangement looks like a checkerboard in scanning tunneling microscope (STM) images, J.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell professor of physics, calls the phenomenon a "checkerboard phase." (August 26, 2004)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David A. Hollinger, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a lecture titled "The Will to Descend: Culture, Color and Genealogy" at Cornell University on Monday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the Bethe Room, 700 Clark Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on current debates over the relation of culture to ethnoracial classifications and is presented as the 1996--97 Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies.
Kwame Ture, who as Stokely Carmichael was a leading spokesman for the Black Power Movement of the 1960s, will give a lecture at Cornell on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. in Robert Purcell Union.
Sol M. Gruner, a Princeton University physicist, has been appointed director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) at Cornell, effective Sept. 1.
Beginning on Monday, June 8, Tower Road, a main thoroughfare of the Cornell University campus, will become the site of several major construction projects.
Cornell Professor K.V. Raman teaches Agriculture in Developing Nations by taking some 50 Cornell students to India in January after a semester of preparation, followed by a semester of reflection. Indian students take the course, too, from India. (November 09, 2005)
An exhibit of archival materials related to the Vietnam War as well as talks, films and a conference for teachers sponsored by the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell is being held Nov. 10 and 11. (November 9, 2005)