For beef producers looking for new ways to economically and efficiently feed their cattle, Cornell animal researchers have shown the effectiveness of an unusual diet: Let them eat bread -- and other commercial bakery leftovers and scraps.
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
Some people are never satisfied. First, nanotechnology researchers at Cornell built a device so sensitive it could detect the mass of a single bacterium - about 665 femtograms. Then they built one that could sense the presence of a single virus - about 1.5 femtograms. Now, with a refined technique, they have detected a single DNA molecule, weighing in at 995,000 Daltons - a shade more than 1 attogram - and can even count the number of DNA molecules attached to a single receptor by noting the difference in mass. (May 18, 2005)
While much of the eastern United States digs out from the Blizzard of '96, the snow has stopped falling but snowfall records continue to fall and storm-related anecdotes pile up, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Cornell University engineering undergraduates swept the competition again this year at the annual five-day International Formula SAE collegiate design and motorsports competition at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, which ended May 19.
"As a lobbyist, my job is advocacy. Like any advocate, if you have a good cause to promote, you are ahead of the game, and I have a great cause: strengthening and globalizing Cornell University," says Stephen Philip Johnson, assistant vice president for government relations at Cornell. Johnson has been advocating for Cornell to state or federal legislators since 1984. Now he is switching his base of operations to Washington, D.C.
The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected three new trustee fellows and re-elected three at-large trustees, one trustee from the field of agriculture and two trustee fellows.
Contrary to popular belief, buyers of new homes should know that the costs of supporting environmental protection don't boost the prices of new houses, a Cornell University housing expert concludes.
All Randy Worobo, associate professor of food science and technology, ever wanted to do as a college student was to go back to the farming life of his childhood. Five miles from their nearest neighbor, the Worobo family calved 800 cattle each year and grew the grain they needed to feed them on their 12,000-acre ranch in rural Alberta, Canada. "My brother and I knew, though, that we couldn't stay on the farm," says Worobo, whose high school class consisted of just six students. "Our parents insisted that we go get a degree from a university -- not a college -- in anything, even basket weaving, to see that there's more to life than farming. After that, they said we could come back." (April 14, 2005)