"Green" plastics developed in a Cornell University laboratory soon could become commercial products with the aid of a $300,000 grant from New York state. The mission of the funding agency, the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), is to encourage economic development in the state by supporting high-tech academic research that can form the basis for new businesses.
Grow grass, not for fun but for fuel. Burning grass for energy has been a well-accepted technology in Europe for decades. But not in the United States. Yet burning grass pellets as a biofuel is economical, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable, says a Cornell University forage crop expert.
A Weill Medical College of Cornell University study that focused on cardiac stress testing may give researchers a powerful new tool to study those types of psychological effects.
Five members of the Cornell University faculty, from the United States, Canada, Romania and Sweden, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell in April.
'Green' plastics developed in a Cornell University laboratory soon could become commercial products with the aid of a $300,000 grant from New York state.
Grow grass, not for fun but for fuel. Burning grass for energy has been a well-accepted technology in Europe for decades. But not in the United States. Yet burning grass pellets as a biofuel is economical, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable, says a Cornell University forage crop expert.
Leading South African trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich is the keynote speaker at Union Days 2005. "Unions in the Global Economy" is the overall theme of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations events, which take place April 6-8 in Ives Hall.
Five airline industry leaders will talk about the issues confronting their industry; at the 80th annual, student-led Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, April 7-9. The event attracts top hospitality industry executives.
Leading South African trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich is the keynote speaker at Cornell's Union Days 2005. 'Unions in the Global Economy' is the overall theme of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) events, April 6-8.