For about a decade now, librarians have been working to preserve deteriorating books, magazines and other documents by scanning and saving digital images of their pages as computer data. Meanwhile, the world continues to create new documents in digital form.
The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Cornell. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics, in cooperation with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management.
Federal legislation to curb industry marketing practices in the sale of infant formula and to enforce a World Health Assembly code banning the promotion of formula was called for today by a Cornell physician and nutritional scientist.
For some years now, cancer researchers have known that cancerous tumors are fed by nutrients and oxygen through blood vessels generated by endothelial cells. Now the hope is to develop drugs to prevent the cells from forming the blood vessels, thus starving the tumors.
Winnie Taylor, Cornell associate provost and chief affirmative action officer, is leaving that post after two-and-a-half years to return to the Cornell Law School faculty.
Community colleges nationwide serve 11 million students and are under increased public pressure to develop new programs to meet the training needs of the 21st century workforce and to expand educational opportunities for high school graduates and older workers who need to develop new skills.
The Faculty Fellows In Service Program, sponsored by the Cornell Public Service Center and Cornell Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy, has awarded financial support to five faculty and community teams to write papers on new initiatives in service learning.
From the 13,000 volunteers who count birds for science in the continent-wide Project FeederWatch, Cornell University ornithologists have collected solutions for birders who prefer to count birds, not squirrels.
Cornell is getting medieval this weekend as it hosts the 17th International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History at the Statler Hotel, Saturday, Nov. 14, through Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Mieke Bal is back by popular demand. Having served as a Fellow of the Society of the Humanities in 1996-97, the founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and professor of the theory of literature at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands returns to Cornell as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Nov. 8-23.
A Cornell youth and work expert is calling for employers of teenagers to obtain "seals of approval" before adolescents can work for them. Parents should be as concerned about where their teenagers work as they are about their schools, because youth employment can have either profoundly positive or seriously harmful effects.
Throughout the next three months, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) will hold a series of public meetings to present route, service and fare recommendations. Over the past year, Tcat has been working closely with Weslin Consulting Services on a service and fare consolidation study.
