It makes cents as well as sense to get your managers to live by their word and not over promise, a study by two professors at leading universities shows.
Collective memory is a fabric that fades without use. So when Kenneth Clarke discovered Martin Luther King Jr.'s name in a Cornell Sage Chapel ledger of past guest speakers, it was news to him. As it turns out, it's news to many people at Cornell and the greater Ithaca area.
Push a number on a palm-sized cell phone and the signal travels to an interior chip with physical features some five orders of magnitude smaller than the number button. That connection is called "electronic packaging," and the challenges presented by this huge discrepancy in size are becoming a serious problem for microelectronics.
A decade after microbiologists began to suspect that many groups of bacteria can communicate -- by releasing and detecting chemical pheromones to gauge their population density -- the molecular structure of a key protein in this interbacterial communication has been solved.
Cornell students, led by the staff of the Public Service Center, celebrated National Volunteer Week, April 21-27. The highlights of the week included formal presentation of two service awards.
The annual Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded for the second time at a ceremony to be held Monday, May 6, at the A.D. White House.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Michael Lynn worked his way through college hustling for tips as a waiter, then turned the study of tipping into an academic career. This latest study finds that while tips are rewards for services rendered, there remains an element of unpredictability, even mystery, about tipping that makes it an unreliable measure of server performance.