ITHACA, N.Y. -- Food product development starts with an idea, then moves into the food lab and ends up as a consumer good for use in a kitchen. For the Cornell University Product Development Team, what started as a good idea quickly moved into three kitchens. Armed with borrowed chef equipment, pastry bags and a plastic ruler, the team prepared prototype biscuits in graduate student Sarah Douglas' kitchen. Their ultimate goal: to make "Stir-Ins," a cookie- and chocolate-based flavorant to make freshly brewed coffee more ambient and aromatic. Coffee lovers should perk up to note: With this product, the team is one of six finalists in the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1996 Product Development Competition, held in New Orleans in June. Team members are from both Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y., campus and Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Optical glass glare filters on computer monitors can dramatically reduce health and vision problems related to computer glare and help boost productivity in full-time computer users, according to a new Cornell University study. After using a glass anti-glare filter, the percent of daily or weekly problems related to lethargy/tiredness, tired eyes, trouble focusing eyes, itching/watery eyes and dry eyes was half what they were before filter use for people who use computer monitors all day at work, said ergonomist Alan Hedge, Ph.D., Cornell professor of design and environmental analysis and director of the Human Factors Laboratory.
It may not be a household concept, but integrated pest management is the talk of the farm. About 90 percent of the state's growers or producers use at least one form of of it.
Claude Steele, professor of psychology at Stanford University, will present the 1995-1996 Flemmie Kittrell Lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
Women students will have a unique opportunity to network with some of Cornell's most distinguished alumnae during a three-day conference on campus sponsored by the President's Council of Cornell Women April 26-28.
Margaret J. Geller, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will deliver the Bethe Lectures at Cornell University the week of May 6.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Digitize mail and paper files so employees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environment and provide alcohol swabs and cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free. These are but a few of the "best alternative office practices" gleaned from more than 25 innovative companies and summarized in the new book "Managing the Reinvented Workplace" (International Development Research Council, 1996) by Cornell University professors and organizational ecologists William Sims, Ph.D., and Franklin Becker, Ph.D., with Michael Joroff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Margaret J. Geller, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will deliver the Bethe Lectures at Cornell University the week of May 6. Geller will give a free public lecture on Tuesday, May 7, at 8 p.m. Her talk, "So Many Galaxies . . . So Little Time," will be in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, and it will include a state-of-the-art graphic voyage through the nearby universe. Geller has produced a film of the same name that depicts the way a scientific group works. She will describe the use of very large telescopes to explore the distant universe in an effort to understand the origins of patterns in the universe.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Women students will have a unique opportunity to network with some of Cornell's most distinguished alumnae during a three-day conference on campus sponsored by the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) April 26-28. The conference will include a mini town meeting to explore the climate for women on campus and in the workplace and a luncheon for students and PCCW members.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Claude Steele, professor of psychology at Stanford University, will present the 1995-1996 Flemmie Kittrell Lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly colored male animals are advertising something of importance to their prospective mates. Should the female assume the gaudiest male has parasite-resistance genes that will benefit her offspring?
John Shipley Rowlinson, the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, will be at Cornell University from April 27 through May 4 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.