When galaxies collide, they create radio beacons. Thanks to a recent upgrade of the radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, 50 peculiar extragalactic objects called OH megamasers have been found, Cornell astronomers report. These objects could yield major clues to understanding galaxy formation.
Clinical trials have begun for recombinant feline erythropoietin (rfEPO), as a treatment for cats suffering nonregenerative anemia, by veterinary researchers at Cornell's James A. Baker Institute for Animal health.
Teens in love have higher risk for depression, alcohol problems and delinquency than teens who do not get romantically involved, reports a Cornell University sociologist. Romantically involved girls are at an even higher risk for depression than boys.
Low-level but chronic noise of moderate traffic can stress children and raise their blood pressure, hearts rates and levels of stress hormones, says a Cornell Professor. The study also found that girls exposed to traffic noise became less motivated.
"American Dresses 1780-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses" is an 810-page encyclopedic reference with more than 300 photographs and illustrations, written by a 93-year-old Professor Emerita at Cornell University. It is available only on CD ROM.
Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute will address funding challenges in a downside economy during its annual policy research conference, "Financing Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century," May 22-23, 2001.
Who wants to be a cancer researcher? June 21, 2001, journalists are invited to slip into the shoes of medical scientists to detect their very own COX-2 inhibitors, fold proteins and find computational clues in the war against cancer, at a daylong workshop, "Cancer Biology: From Research to Recovery."
Journalists are invited to visit Poland June 6 - 8 to see evidence of the increasing threat of potato late blight, the fungus-like pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine. As the pathogen gains resistance to metalaxyl, the commonly applied fungicide, it is again becoming virulent.
The larvae of Manduca sexta, a moth nicknamed the tobacco hornworn, can become so chemically dependent to one of their favorite foods -- the leaves of eggplant, or potato and tomato plants -- that they would rather starve to death than eat leaves from other plants.
Over the next few weeks Cornell University biology students and members of the campus Herpetology Society will gather along a road about six miles from campus to stop and slow down automobile traffic, giving frogs and salamanders right of way to cross from the forest to a mating pond.
Scientists at Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Florida, have used gene therapy to restore vision in dogs blinded by an inherited retinal degenerative disease.
The planned visit of former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to Cornell University May 2-4 has been postponed for health reasons. His visit to Cornell is now planned for May 29-31.
When mandatory nutrition labeling went into effect, sales of high-fat salad dressings significantly declined, showing that the labels do have an effect on consumer choices, says
Steven Holl's distinctive design was "absolutely the clear winner" of Cornell University's competition for the design of a new building for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
Cornell University food science students have developed a mocha-flavored, chocolate-coated snack that uses an unusual ingredient: whey. The students call their concoction Café Crunch, and the product won the $5,000 top prize at the Dairy Management Institute's annual Discoveries in Dairy Ingredients contest.
Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general and a member of the Class of 1960, will address Cornell's convocation for graduating students and their families May 26, 2001.
Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell University, argues that static electricity causes dust grains to levitate downhill into the bottom of craters on asteroid Eros -- the same process, he believes, that has filled craters on the moon.
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell University campus when students run the hotel for a day.
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell on a personal visit in early May to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and meet with students and faculty at his alma mater. The university will announce the establishment of the Lee Teng-hui Institute in his honor.
Media are invited to attend the Potato Late Blight Field Day in Warsaw, Poland from June 6 to 8 2001. The field day is being sponsored by the Cornell Eastern Europe-Mexico late blight research program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Using wireless networking to browse the web during class can be a distraction, and when college students do too much of it their grades suffer, Cornell University researchers have found. Teachers need to adapt their classes to make the most of the new technology.
Cornell and a private foundation organized by the Emir of Qatar announced April 9, 2001 the establishment of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. It will offer a complete medical education leading to a Cornell University M.D. degree, with the same admission standards and curriculum as the New York campus.
A fundamentally new process called controlled etching of dislocations developed at Cornell University has produced an array of tiny "nanobumps" just 25 nanometers across (about 75 atoms), six times smaller than the smallest component of a commercial microprocessor. (Applied Physics Letters, 4-9-01)
A Cornell University experiment on a fly-sized treadmill shows that a tiny fly with super-acute hearing can not only match the species thought to have the best directional hearing --"Homo sapiens" -- but it does so with a fraction of the head space. (Nature, April 5, 2001)
Conventional wisdom that tropical regions have more tree biomass than temperate zones seems to be wrong. The amount of tree biomass in any two given similar-sized areas is virtually identical, according to a new study by Karl J. Niklas of Cornell and Brian J. Enquist of the University of Arizona. (Nature, 4-5-01)
The chance discovery of a long-sought catalyst had led to an entirely new class of rubbery plastics produced in the laboratory at Cornell University. Because the material uses two common and inexpensive petroleum products, ethylene and polyethylene, the research promises greatly reduced production costs.
The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University will celebrate its centennial with a feast of lectures, panel discussions, exhibits and more at the Centennial Celebration Weekend on the Cornell campus, March 30-31, 2001. It is open to the public.
The final report of the Cornell Retirement and Well-Being Study summarizes its major findings on the retirement transition, planning for retirement, post-retirement employment, volunteer service and health and well-being. Principal investigator is Phyllis Moen, Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies at Cornell.
Using mathematical equations, a Cornell University scientist and his colleagues have found evidence of a fourth spatial dimension in plants. In short, size matters. (PNAS, forthcoming)
Contrary to concerns that carpeting could be contributing to indoor air quality (IAQ) problems in schools, a Cornell University IAQ expert says these concerns are misguided and that carpet can actually improve air quality, safety and learning in children.
About 25 percent of middle-aged Americans think they've had a midlife crisis, yet only about 15 percent of them really have, says Cornell sociologist Elaine Wethington. Her study also found that women report as many midlife crises as men. (Motivation and Emotion, 10-00)
Taking direct aim at the youth sports drink and carbonated soft drink industry, a carbonated, milk-based beverage has been developed by food science researchers at Cornell University and Mac Farms, Inc., of Burlington, Mass.
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration will host the fifth annual "Hospitality Industry Strategy Conference -- The Americas" to be held March 21-23, 2001, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C and the "Hospitality Industry Strategy Conference -- Europe," in London in May.
Thanks to the early March nor'easter that has dumped 13.8 inches of snow on the city of salt, this has become the second snowiest season ever for Syracuse, N.Y. In fact, it is the snowiest city in the Northeast, according to climatologists at Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Chemical signals at the most critical moment for new life in mammals -- when sperm meets egg and attempts fertilization -- evolve rapidly in a process driven by positive Darwinian selection, according to a Cornell University study. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2-27-01)
Peter Gierasch, one of Cornell University's most distinguished scientists, who has almost "written the book" on planetary atmospheres, will be honored at a two-day seminar March 2 and 3. The two-day event is being held to celebrate Gierasch's 60th birthday.
Most people are better judges of the moral character of others than they are of their own, Cornell University psychologists report. (J. of Personality and Social Psychology)
Cornell University researchers, using techniques developed to observe subatomic particles, have measured turbulent flow in liquids over a wide range of velocities and have come up with some surprising results: Particles often get an extra kick that accelerates them out of proportion to the general motion of the fluid. (Nature, 2-22-01)
An author's style and personality and the presence he or she brings to a best-selling science book are generally the main factors in making it a best seller, says a Cornell University professor.
A systematic use of market contracts called options, purchased before the crisis happened, might have alleviated California energy blackouts, says a Cornell University researcher.
Using spectral tools for infrared and submillimeter wave observations, astronomers are looking for the building blocks of life in parts of the universe where there may be oxygen and where it is wet. Cornell professor of astronomy will host a symposium on the topic at the AAAS meeting Feb. 19.
Despite efforts by Washington, Russia's biological weapons program continues to be a cause for anxiety says a postdoctoral associate at the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University.
Researchers at Cornell University are using nanotechnology to build microscopic silicon devices with features comparable in size to DNA, proteins and other biological molecules -- to count molecules, analyze them, separate them, perhaps even work with them one at a time. The work is called "nanofluidics."
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded a $500,000 research project involving Cornell University, the University of California-Santa Barbara and Pennsylvania State University. on the behavior of rock-derived nutrients and the accumulation of toxic elements in relation to ecosystem age and climate
Cornell University and Harvard Medical School are collaborating to decipher the structures of proteins associated with human cancers. As the Harvard research group identifies and purifies proteins, samples will be sent to the Macromolecular Diffraction Facility (MacCHESS) at Cornell to find their three-dimensional.
Cornell University food scientists have won a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the NIH to investigate how Listeria monocytogenes volve and travel in food, humans, animals, water and soil.
"Net Working: Work Patterns and Workforce Policies for the New Media Industry," co-authored by a Cornell University professor, surveys new media workers in New York City's "Silicon Alley" and offers strategies to improve formal training and certification programs, hiring procedures, employees' compensation and job security.
Potentially deadly fungal spores hitchhike on clothes into hospitals, easily infecting immunosuppressed hospital patients, and cotton clothing with its surface topography is a worse culprit than fibers with smoother surfaces, according to a study at Cornell University
For the past year, the imaging team at Cornell University has been figuring out how to slew the NEAR spacecraft and aim its camera for the mission's final act: alighting on an asteroid.
Cornell University astronomers hope that surface details as small as a hand-size rock will be captured by the camera in NASA's NEAR Shoemaker in the final few minutes before it bumps down on the boulder-strewn surface of Eros Feb. 12. Helping to answer questions about the geology of the 22-mile-long asteroid.
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