Trainers with the Ruckus Society, which normally teaches nonviolent social action techniques to anti-corporate activists, teach MBA students at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University how to respond to public interest group pressure when they enter the corporate world.
The New York Space Grant Consortium has been awarded $99,421 by NASA in one-year funding to help train and prepare the space agency's future workforce. Cornell is the lead institution in the consortium. Yervant Terzian, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell, is the group's director.
For his senior thesis project, Cornell ILR student Noah Doyle is studying an international B'nai B'rith leadership camp for teens, to quantify whether such camps really train young people to become leaders later on.
Cornell University researchers have built a microscopic device that could supply power for decades to remote sensors or implantable medical devices by drawing energy from a radioactive isotope and converting it directly into the up and down motion of a cantilever.
Democratic reform and poverty alleviation in Africa are the focus of a major symposium at Cornell Oct. 24-26, 2002. Keynote speaker is Johann Kriegler, who headed South Africa's electoral commission during country's first inclusive elections.
Machine models built in the 19th century to teach basic mechanical principles will again be available for classroom use in an interactive digital collection to be created by Cornell University for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), under a .$725,088 NSF grant.
A new alliance between the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and PKF Consulting will produce studies to improve the bottom line for hotels. The alliance is the only one ever made between the consulting group and a research university.
Americans living in poverty are at much higher risk for multiple exposures to environmental hazards, which may account for the health differences between the poor and nonpoor, according to Cornell University enviuronmental psychologist.
A long-term study of German children by Cornell and European environmental psychologists concludes that excessive airport noise interferes with children's reading ability and long-term memory.
Thousands of volunteers have a new assignment from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: documenting the impact of West Nile virus while counting birds for the 2002-03 season of Project FeederWatch.
When wives in late midlife take care of ill or disabled husbands, they are five times more likely to retire than other wives, while caregiving husbands are 50 percent slower to retire, according to a new study at Cornell University.
Cornell University astronomer Joseph Burns told a House of Representatives space subcommittee Oct. 3 that we should build a $125 million telescope to detect asteroids and comets that pose a threat to the Earth. There is, he said, a 1 percent probability a 300-meter body could strike Earth in the next 100 years.
Sweating it out: U.S. cities now have 10 more hot nights than forty years ago, Cornell climate researchers discover, but rural areas are not so hot.
As a highway network was built to bring goods to isolated markets, we must act now to build a national information network, says a professor of city and regional planning at Cornell. His new book argues for federal support for such a network and asserts that it will benefit all, including the urban poor.
Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics and computing and information science at Cornell University and creator of a revolutionary online physics, mathematics and computer science archive, has been named a 2002 fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a novel method of separating DNA molecules by length, using a previously discovered "entropic recoil force." The technique might eventually be used to create chips or other microscopic devices to automate and speed up gene sequencing and DNA fingerprinting.
Hotels near airports offer the most safety and security, with large, new and luxury hotels also ranking high on safety and security index devised by Cornell Hotel School Professor Cathy Enz.
A new 12-page publication by Cornell University textile experts provides laboratory-tested details on removing almost 250 kinds of stains, from adhesive tape and antiperspirant to wax crayon and wine using products that can be found in most grocery stores or pharmacies.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.67 million to Cornell University over five years to examine the complex relationship between Kenyan small farmers, their communities and the land on which they depend for their livelihoods.
Cornell University entomologists have found a gene controlling sex phereomones that may affect how insects evolve into new species. The discovery has major implications for the control of insect populations through disruption of mating, suggesting that over time current eradication methods could become ineffective.
Overcoming the drawbacks of growing up with a single parent, black children do as well, both academically and socially, as blacks in two-parent homes, a study by Cornell University and University of Utah researchers indicates.
Instead of landfills clogged with discarded computers and car parts, a Cornell University fiber scientist works on low-cost, fully biodegradable composites made from soybean protein and other biodegradable plastics and plant-based fibers.
The Center for Hospitality Research web site publishes the latest research for industry practitioners -- including the aftershocks of 9/11 on travel and tourism. Traffic on the site is up 310 percent from last year, and the CHR now has 19 corporate partners, sponsors and friends.
Michael C. Kelley, a professor in Cornell University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to continue his research in Greece during the 2002-2003 academic year.
A new book by Cornell University experts describes the staggering extent to which emotional violence damages today's youth and what to do about it.
Cornell University will commemorate the tragic attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with a week of discussions and remembrances. The goal is to engage the campus community in thoughtful discussion of the impact of the attacks, not only on the international political scene but also on American culture and society.
Managers with integrity have a positive effect on their company's bottom line, according to a Cornell University study.
The first large-scale study to provide a clear link between acid rain and widespread declines across the breeding range of a songbird, the wood thrush, points to calcium depletion as a possible cause, Cornell University ecologists say.
Monster panels, talks, seminars and sermons, monster book groups, monster plays, movies and maybe even a monster ball are spinning out of Cornell University's First Year Book Project, in which thousands of students, faculty and townspeople are reading Mary Shelley's gothic novel.
A Cornell University nutritionist has learned how to make tumor cells up to 1,000 times more sensitive to retinoic acid, which would reduce the toxicity of retinoic acid treatment for cancer and has potential for protecting high-risk patients preventively.
Cooking sweet corn unleashes beneficial nutrients that can substantially reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer, according to Cornell University food scientists.
A team of Cornell University researchers has received $1.6 million in grants to study ways to interface metal conductors with organic semiconductors, an important step toward making smaller, cheaper electronic devices such as smart cards and wearable computers.
Cornell Theory Center (CTC) has announced an agreement with Dell, Intel and Microsoft that secures $60 million worth of resources to provide a suite of Windows-based high-performance cluster computing solutions and services to business, government and academia clients.
Cornell University potato breeders are donating a disease-resistant potato to Russia in an effort to help combat aggressive strains of potato late blight.
In studies of the drug BPA, an experimental treatment for high-grade brain tumors, a group at Cornell University has found that the dose currently favored by medical researchers is not high enough to target cancer cells effectively.
The Standard Model, a complex physics theory, is now required to be taught in New York state high schools as part of statewide public school reforms in math, science and technology education. High school teachers across the state are learning about the theory at workshops at Cornell University.
A new book by Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, "Biological Invasions: Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species," discusses the more than 120,000 non-indigenous species that have invaded six countries, causing tens of billions of dollars in harm each year in the United States alone.
Academic couples at same university are happier and report less stress than couples where one spouse works at a university and the other works elsewhere, a new CU study reports.
Japanese shore crabs, square-shaped crustaceans that pose a direct threat to soft-shell (steamer) clams, mussels, and possibly lobsters, were discovered July 13, 2002, by Cornell University marine biologists in Owl's Head, Maine, in Penobscot Bay.
A Cornell University study finds that companies attract more institutional investors by repurchasing shares of their own stock rather than by paying out more dividends.
On the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a Cornell University researcher finds that many supervisors in federal agencies are unaware of initiatives to hire or accommodate persons with disabilities.
A new website from Cornell University offers dozens of articles and checklists on issues relating to employment access or people with disabilities. Intended for human resources professionals, the website is sponsored by the Program on Employment and Disability in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Trust and communication are more important to food-service purchasing agents than good service, price or brand, according to a new Cornell study.
The NRC has released "Biosolids Applied to Land: Advancing Standards and Practices," commissioned by the EPA. Ellen Z. Harrison, director of the Waste Management Institute at Cornell University and a key member of the committee, is available for comment on the report and other public-health and environmental issues.
Low income homes have significantly higher rates of radon than higher income homes, and a significant number of child-care centers have unsafe levels of radon, lead and mold according to new study at Cornell University.
Cornell University to test a question that has intrigued cancer researchers: Can a geographic database of cancers in dogs and cats warn of possible environmental causes for cancers in humans?
A decade after microbiologists began to suspect that many groups of bacteria can communicate -- by releasing and detecting chemical pheromones to gauge their population density -- the molecular structure of a key protein in this interbacterial communication has been solved.
The artificial racket created by ships and other human sources may be interfering with whale reproduction and population recovery, marine scientists report.
The National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT) at Cornell University reports a new way of measuring, or "visualizing," proteins.
Two years after the New York State Board of Regents removed the option of a local diploma in favor of more-demanding Regents diplomas for all students, 28 percent of the state's school superintendents are reporting an increase in dropouts, according to a Cornell University survey released today.
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