Mexican President Vicente Fox on Nov. 24 presented Mexico's most prestigious youth award, the Premio Nacional de Juventud (National Youth Prize), to Gerardo Chowell-Puente, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, for his research in the mathematical modeling of communication in networks, which has provided new understanding of the way disease spreads through a population. In recent work as a visiting research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chowell-Puente and his Los Alamos colleagues modeled the transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong, Singapore and Ontario, Canada. The work validated the decision of Canadian health authorities to intervene with strict quarantines. Without that intervention, the model showed, the disease might have spread to some 200,000 people, instead of the few hundred who were infected. (November 26, 2003)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Optical glass glare filters on computer monitors can dramatically reduce health and vision problems related to computer glare and help boost productivity in full-time computer users, according to a new Cornell University study. After using a glass anti-glare filter, the percent of daily or weekly problems related to lethargy/tiredness, tired eyes, trouble focusing eyes, itching/watery eyes and dry eyes was half what they were before filter use for people who use computer monitors all day at work, said ergonomist Alan Hedge, Ph.D., Cornell professor of design and environmental analysis and director of the Human Factors Laboratory.
'Cyberasociality' (inability or unwillingness to relate to others via social media) is the new dyslexia, sociologists say: a kind of online motion sickness.
The Internet Archive will create periodic snapshots of the entire Cornell Web space and other scholarly and historically important sites outside of Cornell. (March 15, 2011)
The Cornell Science Sample Series gives New York City-area teachers hands-on instruction from Cornell faculty and graduate students to help them bring scientific concepts alive in the classroom. (Oct. 13, 2011)
Humans speak so many different languages because we're wired to keep up with rapid linguistic change, according to a new study by Cornell psychologist Morten Christiansen and his colleagues. (Nov. 5, 2012)