A $1.1 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to a Cornell University-based group may mean a fast, inexpensive and satisfactory resolution to a range of employment disputes throughout the United States.
Brimming with confidence and armed with improved versions of last year's winning robots, eight Cornell University students left today for Australia, where the Big Red team will defend its title in the fourth annual World Cup of robotic soccer, known as RoboCup.
After more than 5,000 years of human-feline cohabitation and enough elaborations on "meow!" to fill a dictionary, cats still haven't mastered language. But a Cornell University evolutionary psychology study - analyzing people's reactions to feline vocalizations - shows that cats know how to get what they want. (May 20, 2002)
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.
Experts in ecology, landscape architecture and horticulture will join staff members of Cornell Plantations April 13 at Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens for a day-long exploration of the "living museum" and "classroom without walls" that embraces one of the nation's most beautiful college campuses.
In Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, scientists are artificially inducing disorder where none occurs naturally, in one of the most unusual states of matter ever created – superfluid helium-3. This fluid is in a unique state that allows it to flow without resistance. Understanding its properties in this disordered state could help understand the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.
Your college freshman finally comes home for a break, dumps the laundry on the floor and disappears for most of the week. Your daughter is devastated: She was rushed but received no sorority bids.
A group of Cornell hospitality management students said "yes" to a rare opportunity Jan. 2-4: to study with the masters while experiencing luxury service firsthand at hotels in Beverly Hills.
Robert Fitzpatrick, dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, who will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell symposium "Creating Minds: Artistic Intelligence Across the Disciplines" to be held Feb. 28 and March 1.