The National Science Foundation has announced a grant of $1.56M to Cornell University's Digital Library Research Group to develop the core infrastructure for the National Science Digital Library, which will make high-quality science source materials available to students from kindergarten through college.
America's major research universities are facing a rapidly changing environment in which higher education is becoming deregulated and subject to ever-increasing scrutiny, writes Frank H.T. Rhodes in his new book, "The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University" .
The heavier white women are, the less money they make, a Cornell University researcher reports. Women who weight 65 pounds more than others, for example, tend to make 7 percent less -- a difference in wages roughly equivalent to one year of education, two years of being on the job, or three years of work experience.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will use a $1.7M grant from the National Science Foundation to outfit a multi-media visitor center in the lab's new facility, set to open early in 2003.
Higher income and highly educated workers are much more likely to use medical flexible spending accounts (FSAs), which allow consumers to use pre-tax dollars on medical care, than lower income and less educated workers, Cornell researchers say.
Bioengineers at Cornell University have demonstrated a system for transplanting clusters of brain cells, together with controlled-release microcapsules of protein, to enable cell differentiation and growth.
To inform better those who make important decisions concerning children and to bridge the gap between scientists and decision-makers who translate research into practice, the NSF has awarded two Cornell professors $2.45M over five years to establish the Cornell Institute for Research on Children.
About one-third the leading edge of the baby boom generation is planning a post-retirement career, about one-third are considering more education, and about two thirds consider traveling and volunteering as important, say researchers at Cornell University.
"Ensuring Health and Security for an Aging Workforce," explores how public and private programs will be influenced by the aging workforce and how public policy should be shaped to cope with aging baby boomers.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cornell University $5,897,513 to establish the National Biomedical Center for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance to study the bonds and structures of chemical and biological materials, such as molecular mechanisms in membranes and proteins.
"Masks and Mirrors: Generation X and the Chameleon Personality" by the professor emeritus of sociology at Cornell University, says that many of those trailing the baby boom generation experience intense fears of failure and adopt chameleon personalities to cope, pretending to be something they are not.
The first infestation of brown marmorated stink bugs (Pentatomidae Halyomorpha halys) in the United States has been positively confirmed in Allentown, PA., by a Cornell entomologist. The bug is indigenous to Asia and is considered a major pest in Japan.
Two professors in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the team that will develop a new organization to manage the National Science Foundation-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation during the decade 2004-2014.
"Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life" is a new book by Professor James Garbarino and Claire Bedard of Cornell University to help today's parents regain control with difficult children and toxic and hostile social environments.
The ï¬rst detailed global mapping of the asteroid 433 Eros has found that that most of the larger rocks strewn across the body were ejected from a single crater in a meteorite collision perhaps a billion years ago, Cornell University astronomers say.
The professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, will receive the Chinese government's 2001 Friendship Award for his geophysics work in Project INDEPTH (International Deep Profiling of Tibet and the Himalaya).
Short-term pain but long-term gain for travel and tourism in wake of terrorist attacks, predicts panel of experts at Cornell's Hotel School Sept. 14, 2001.
An assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a $239,992 research grant by The Whitaker Foundation to study the human thumb, research aimed at understanding the biomechanics, neuromuscular control and clinical rehabilitation of hand function.
James Garbarino, Ph.D., co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell University, offers advice to parents on how they can help their children cope with the news of terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States.
New book focuses on how to write reports. Guide to Report Writing (Prentice-Hall, 2001) is co-authored by a senior lecturer who teaches managerial communication in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Nonfamiliarity produces seed. Just as humans have a natural aversion toward marrying kin, some food crop plants have genes that allow them to avoid being fertilized by "self-related" pollen, Cornell biologists say.
The longer you are unemployed by circumstance, the higher your risk for health problems. Unemployment type payments can help protect health deterioration during this high stress time, but welfare type benefits don't, finds a study by Cornell University's Eunice Rodriguez.
Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a $1.3 million, four-year grant by the National Science Foundation to produce and study polymer microphotonics.
Terrill Cool, professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University, has been awarded $354,000 by the Department of Energy for a three-year study of combustion chemistry.
Two members of the Cornell University faculty--Robert C. Richardson, the Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics and vice provost for research and Paul M. Kintner Jr., professor of electrical and computer engineering--have been named to NASA committees overseeing the agency's budget and management of space science programs.
Dramatic growth in trade and investment with China has had a significant impact on employment and wages for workers in the United States and other countries, according to a federally funded pilot study by researchers at Cornell and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
By probing single-wall carbon nanotubes with an atomic force microscope, researchers at Cornell University have found new ways to cut and bend the tiny tubes, and have learned how to feel the force of a single electron as it hops on and off the tube, they reported at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Researchers at Cornell University say they are well advanced in creating a polymer of silkworm silk that both mimics and improves on nature, they reported at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society at McCormick Place, Chicago.
Four New York state school districts will make a concerted formal effort to use more locally grown foods in their lunch programs and Cornell University researchers will assess how beneficial the pilot programs are for farmers, school districts and students.
Two groups of Cornell University researchers have been awarded U.S. defense agency contracts to develop molecular switches and explore the spin properties of electrons, aiming at a new generation of miniaturized electronic devices.
A Cornell University study shows that jury awards for punitive damages are no larger in relation to compensatory awards and no more frequent than judges' awards. The finding contradicts popular opinion and a previous, less comprehensive study by other researchers.
How hot was it? Throughout the Northeast last week, 38 new high temperature records were set and 15 old records were tied, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Halloween carving knives may be the least of threats to pumpkins this autumn, as a disease called bacterial wilt -- being spread by way of striped or spotted cucumber beetles -- has been found in the upper Midwest and the Northeast, says a Cornell University plant pathologist.
Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell University agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.
Two researchers at Cornell University are predicting that high-temperature superconductivity could exist in a class of exotic materials containing silver and fluorine. However, none of the materials has yet been made.
Potentially damaging soybean aphids have been detected in several central and western counties of New York state, according to Cornell University entomologists. The insect has infested several other agricultural states since last summer, particularly Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.
Biologists have discovered how plant cells resist some ailments. Researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University can now demonstrate how disease-causing organisms deliver destructive agents to plants, and how plants fight back.
The E-Print Archive "arXiv.org," widely credited with revolutionizing the way physical scientists and mathematicians communicate, is moving from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to Cornell University and will become a service of Cornell University Library.
Important milestones in brain development across nine mammalian species, from hamsters to humans, have now been modeled, providing a key for translating from one species to another, Cornell neurobiologists report.
Cornell biologists' review of traditional recipes in 36 countries suggests that vegetable-based foods have better built in protection from pathogens and don't need antimicrobial spices.
A diet-and-disease survey just completed in Taiwan and mainland China is leading some public-health experts to conclude that Chinese and other Asian people may be losing the benefits of a plant-based diet.
With a Sloan Foundation grant, two Cornell professors will create a longitudinal extension of earlier survey of how new technology affects the nature of work, skills, training and income for frontline employees in the telecommunications services industry.
How Americans recall their personal memories are typically different than how the Chinese do, finds an assistant professor of human development at Cornell. These cultural differences are important because how we remember personal experiences has a profound impact on our self-concept.
Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and science educator Bill Nye have been appointed Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professors at Cornell University beginning July 1. Each will serve a three-year appointment. During each year of their appointments, Rhodes professors visit the campus for a minimum of two weeks.
A Cornell University-led research group comprised of 25 faculty members from six institutions has been awarded a $19.6 million, five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to build a structural biology research facility at Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source.
An instrument aboard a spacecraft that will be launched in 2001 to explore two, and perhaps three or more, comets in the solar system will for the first time provide a "fingerprint" of the surface of cometary nuclei, giving the first firm evidence of the composition of the icy, rocky objects.
Russia is on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the virulent, fungal-like pathogen, called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine. As the strains spread through Central and Eastern Europe, a blight-resistant potato variety has been developed at Cornell.
Jon A. and Virginia M. Lindseth '56 have bestowed a major collection of material documenting the American women's suffrage movement to Cornell University Library.
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, for a personal visit June 26-28.
Clinical trials have begun for recombinant feline erythropoietin as a treatment for cats suffering nonregenerative anemia, by veterinary researchers at Cornell.
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