Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings today announced that the university's medical college has been named in honor of its long-time supporters Joan and Sanford I. Weill.
A fortified orange-flavored drink given to East African children for six months not only significantly improved nutritional deficiencies but also brought almost twice as much weight gain and 25 percent greater gain in height than children who did not get the drink, a Cornell nutritionist reports.
Now add one more reason to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables: Their antioxidants seem to help protect lung function and may help prevent asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis, according to a new study.
The World Wide Web is an endless source of information, but it's getting harder and harder to find precisely the right information. Now a Cornell University researcher has come up with a method of searching the web that can return a list of the most valuable sites on a given topic, as well as a list of sites that index the subject.
"Are We All Equal Under the Law?" will be the question discussed at the fifth annual civil rights symposium sponsored by the Cornell Political Forum Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
It doesn't have a brain or a heart, and its walk is a little like the scarecrow's, but a little headless, armless, trunkless two-legged robot, developed at Cornell University, can walk, wobble, hobble, limp, stride and stagger. But it can't stand still in any position without falling over. (April 7, 1998)
The Kingsbury commission, appointed by Cornell University Provost Don M. Randel, announced today (April 2) the results of the necropsy of the unidentified object removed from Cornell's McGraw tower on March 13. In a four-word executive summary, the commission found: "It is a pumpkin!"
Women who cook, eat and chat together also improve their diet together, according to a Cornell University study of a cooperative extension program. In fact, women on limited income who participated in the six-week Sisters in Health program reported they ate 40 percent more fruits and vegetables.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and slavery expert David Brion Davis will speak at Cornell Wednesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall in a lecture titled "The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery: Seeing the Big Picture." The lecture is free and open to the public and is made possible by the Walter LaFeber and Joel Silbey Fund in American History, which is sponsoring Davis' visit.
Politicians across the country - and in particular congressmen - are engaged in a frenzied dance of political extortion, extracting payments from constituents for legislative inaction. "It's a shakedown - and it's perfectly legal," says Cornell law Professor Fred S. McChesney.
Jaclyn Engelman explained meteor showers called Leonids. Paul Kleinman talked about analyzing U.S. census data. Joshua Ladau described the peculiar mating habits of crickets. All three are 18-year-old undergraduate freshmen doing paid, sometimes graduate-level research at Cornell.
When Cornell art history Professor Robert G. Calkins was 17 years old, he took a bicycle trip through southern England and France. "I was swept off my feet," he said, by the countryside, the people and the antiquity he saw. Most of all, he was amazed and moved by the great cathedrals of Europe.
