The Summer Olympics athletes that Dr. Michael A. Ball cares for will run three days in Georgia's July heat, jump over logs and ditches, sweat off as much as 10-15 liters of body fluid an hour and carry other athletes on their backs.
Fifteen undergraduate students from across the country arrived in Ithaca, N.Y., on June 2 to begin a summer of research at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC).
Nobel Prize winner Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University professor emeritus of physics, has a new award named in his honor established by the American Physical Society (APS). The APS will announce the award at a reception on the occasion of Bethe's 90th birthday on July 2.
Thanks to charismatic enzymes and environmental concerns, the brine from processed sauerkraut no longer may pose an ecological threat. Instead, it could cut the mustard as a popular flavor enhancer for a variety of beverages and foods, according to a Cornell scientist. Sauerkraut brine is the byproduct generated in the fermentation of cabbage.
With pencil-shaped, chocolate-covered cookies called Stir-Ins, which add flavor to coffee, Cornell University students on Monday (June 24) won the national championship at the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual student food product competition.
The microwave oven is not just for popcorn anymore. Consumers who want fresh microwaved foods that are supposed to be crisp and taste better can look forward to improvement, thanks to new Cornell studies that show how moisture, heating rate and the food's porosity interact during microwave cooking.
Although Hong Kong and Taiwan represent some 80 percent of the foreign investment in China and share a common language and culture with the mainland, American and Japanese foreign investments are much more profitable, according to a Cornell study.
Steven Ames, a private investor in New York and a longtime supporter of Cornell University's art scene, has been named chair of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Advisory Council. The appointment was made by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
The Cornell Board of Trustees on May 24 unanimously elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows and re-elected two at-large members and four fellows. Board members also welcomed two alumni-elected trustees, one faculty-elected trustee, one student-elected trustee and two trustees appointed by New York Gov. George Pataki.
Studies at the Cornell Institute for Chemical Ecology (CIRCE) are showing just how resourceful male insects can be when they seek a mate. In one species, the fire-colored beetle Neopyrochroa flabellata, the male entices the female by presenting her with a chemical offering, secreted from a gland in his head.