Another milestone in the quest for the perfect pizza: Cornell University researchers have discovered how to make fat-free or low-fat mozzarella cheese melt better. As a result the future promises pizza with low-fat cheese that not only tastes better but also looks as good as regular cheese.
They didn't sing the old Cornell football song "See them plunging down to the goal," but the school's Big Red team became champions of world robot "soccer" today (Aug. 4, 1999) when they beat a highly regarded German team 15-0 in the finals in Stockholm, Sweden.
Charles Van Loan, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has been named the new chair of the university's Department of Computer Science.
A Cornell team called Big Red is about to compete in the world soccer cup finals. But if the team wins, no champagne will be poured on the players, and no sports bras will be displayed. That's because all the players are robots.
The Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors reaches out to rural women with an interactive display from Cornell. The display makes its premiere appearance Aug. 11 at Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls.
An agreement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a Cornell University-based consortium of institutions will help to establish the new Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) here. NSF funding over a five-year period could reach $19 million.
'Mind and Memory,' a popular public lecture series and undergraduate course, has received a $5,000 grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The grant will help support the 'Mind and Memory' series, directed by Diane Ackerman under the aegis of the Society for the Humanities.
Susan Piliero, associate professor in the Department of Education, is the new director of the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) at Cornell. She was appointed in July.
Researchers at Cornell have had their best success yet in simulating the folding of a protein solely from the physical laws that govern the behavior of its atoms.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit the campus of Cornell on July 31 as part of her upstate New York swing to explore running for the U.S. Senate. The visit, hosted by Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will be a 'listen-in' discussion on farming and agriculture issues.
It's a piece of celestial real estate," the asteroid's discoverer, astronomer Ted Bowell, told celebrants Sunday at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM) being hosted at the university.
Cornell's computer scientists and librarians will form an unusual partnership to develop better ways to manage and ensure the integrity of documents and other data in the digital library of the future.
