Chilly workers not only make more errors but cooler temperatures could increase a worker's hourly labor cost by 10 percent, estimates Alan Hedge, professor of design and environmental analysis and director of Cornell's Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory.
At the request of the Upstate Citizens Safety Task Force, the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs will conduct a study on the impact of heavy trucks transporting garbage along New York State Route 89. (Jan. 10, 2008)
Outgoing Interim President Hunter Rawlings has been honored with the renaming of the 10-year-old Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (CPRS) program for undergraduates as the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research…
The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center has discovered that the wonder drug tamoxifen can help breast cancer patients have babies - even after they experience fertility loss associated with chemotherapy.
A car that gets 100 miles a gallon may sound far-fetched, but the technology is available now, says Cornell's Progressive Automotive X Prize Team. (Aug. 19, 2008)
Many patients with AIDS in Haiti who received antiretroviral therapy had a one-year survival of 87 percent for adults and 98 percent for children, triple the 30 percent one-year survival of Haitian patients without the therapy, according to a study.
In just four days in February, participants in the annual bird count tallied more than 11 million birds across the United States and Canada and submitted a record-breaking number of checklists. (March 30, 2007)
The new structure of central university administration will streamline management and establish a more integrated team, with a projected savings of more than $2 million a year.
As part of Cornell University's annual commemoration of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Aaron Brown, lead anchor on CNN during the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, will deliver a talk titled "On Being Part of History: 9/11 and the Election" on Saturday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. in Statler Auditorium on campus. Brown's talk is free and open to the public; seating is first-come, first-served. Following the lecture, there will be a meet-and-greet session. (September 07, 2004)
A Cornell audience had an advance glimpse of 'The Rise and Fall of Books,' a documentary about professor of art Buzz Spector, Nov. 15 in Willard Straight Theatre. (Nov. 28, 2007)