The one place in the Northeast most likely to have a white Christmas - Caribou, Maine - officially had but an inch of snow on the ground. It started the holiday at midnight with a high temperature of 44 degrees, not surprising since this was also Caribou's warmest December since the start of official records there in 1939, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center .
Cornell researchers, using non-linear laser-microscope technology developed at Cornell, have produced images displaying the neurotransmitter serotonin in live cells in real time, and they have for the first time measured the concentration of serotonin in secretory granules.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today issued the following statement in response to news reports that a prominent Cornell alumnus, Charles F. Feeney, and his family were the principals in the formation, in the early 1980s, of two significant international philanthropies, The Atlantic Foundation and The Atlantic Trust.
A $20 million gift to Cornell from an alumnus will launch major new instructional and research initiatives in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art facilities in growing technologies for electronic and photonic devices, biotechnology and advanced materials processing.
Mini-grants worth up to $1,000 are available for Cornell student groups, faculty and staff members to develop prevention-education programs addressing violence and substance abuse on campus.
Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns. As a start, governments should end irrigation subsidies that encourage inefficient use of water and instead reward conservation, according the report, "Water Resources: Agriculture, the Environment and Society," published in the February 1997 issue of the journal, BioScience.
To help advance the careers of women in academia, the President's Council of Cornell Women is offering grants to support the completion of dissertations and research leading to tenure and promotion.
The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell is getting bipartisan political support in its effort to ensure that funding for the nation's six regional climate centers is included in the next federal budget.
Knowing why the groundhog comes out of hibernation in early February may have more import than predicting winter's end, Cornell researchers have found. Groundhogs have more dramatic annual biological rhythms than nearly all other mammals and are a perfect animal model for studying them.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Potential presidential candidates in the year 2000 may want to adopt a cat, suggests one educator who has made an informal study of America's "first pets." "Cat owners will probably find better success at the polls than dog owners, just as President Clinton defeated George Bush and Senator Dole, both of whom are dog owners," said Franklin M. Loew, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University.
