Dual-earner couples might seem to have new-millennium marriages. But their strategies to manage work and family turn out to be a variant of the traditional breadwinner/homemaker division. It's still the husbands' career that gets priority, says a study at Cornell University. (Social Problems, 8-00)
International trade and investment policies, combined with ineffective labor laws, have created a climate that has emboldened employers to threaten to close, or actually close, their plants to avoid unionization, shows a study by a Cornell ILR faculty members Labor Education Research Group.
The controversy over genetically engineered crops and the foods derived from them will be examined at Cornell University's Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organisms Conference.
A $1.1M U.S. Department of Labor grant to a Cornell University-based group may mean a fast, inexpensive and satisfactory resolution to a range of employment disputes throughout the United States.
Wilson Laboratory at Cornell is available for tours by the news media during the week of Sept. 25. Media representatives will see the underground tunnel of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring.
In the latest edition of "Science" (Sept. 22, 2000), Joseph Veverka of Cornell University describes asteroid Eros as covered with craters and rocks, suggesting many collisions.
Cornell University researchers and colleagues report that nurse home visits to low-income, unmarried women during pregnancy and the first two years of their babies' lives helped reduce child abuse by up to 80 percent. The study appears in this week's issue of JAMA (Sept. 20, 2000).
New book by Cornell University economics Professor Ron Ehrenberg explains why tuition at select colleges and universities keeps on going up and what can be done about it.
Five Universities will create computer programs that can adapt to changing conditions in the virtual worlds they are creating and the hardware on which they are running in NSF's $5 million Adaptive Software Project.
About 11 months after an El Nino in the Pacific, hospitals in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with cholera outbreaks, as reported by ecologists at Cornell University and the universities of Barcelona and London (Science, 9-8-00).
Even though various ethnic groups may perceive crowding differently, Asian and Latin Americans are just as distressed in crowded homes as Anglo- and African-Americans are, regardless of income, says a Cornell University professor (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 79, 2000).
"Endings and Beginnings: Law, Medicine and Society in Assisted Life and Death," by Cornell Professor of Law Larry Palmer, argues that neither scientists nor judges are the best people to decide how our children should be born and how we should die. We should create laws and policies that mesh with our values.
In what is seen as a breakthrough in chemistry, Cornell University chemists have established the theoretical principles of crystal bonding of a group of thousands of compounds. Although these compounds have no industrial uses, many have interesting electronic and magnetic properties.
Workers' basic rights are routinely violated in the U.S., says a study by a Cornell University expert on labor law. U.S. labor law is feebly enforced, riddled with loopholes, and fails to meet the basic human rights standards the U.S demands of other countries.
How tiny molecular motors carrying target proteins help orient the spindle-like apparatus that transfers genetic material from the nucleus of a mother cell to a daughter has been shown by Cornell University biologists (Nature, 8-31-00).
Cornell University experts on several aspects of the West Nile virus problem can comment to the news media, and the university offers a Web site that is a good source of timely information and background.
A Cornell University computer scientist has proposed an improved mathematical model to explain why we are only "six degrees of separation" away from anyone else: there are local cues that tell us which way to send a message to reach someone far away, he says in a paper in the Aug. 24 issue of Nature.
Materials scientists from Cornell and the State University of New York at Binghamton have found what is required to make the adhesive Alpha-Terp fall apart in recycling of an old computer or the remanufacturing of a usable one (ACS meeting in Washington, D.C.).
To test the effects of earthquakes on gas pipelines, Cornell University and Tokyo Gas Co. scientists will simulate earthquake loads on four 30-feet-long steel, L-shaped gas pipelines -- made in Japan for use under Tokyo streets -- by pitting them against 90 tons of moving sand.
Michael Lynn at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration finds that while tips are rewards for services rendered, there is an element of unpredictability, even mystery, about tipping that makes it an unreliable measure of server performance (Journal of Socio-Economics).
High amounts of ground-level ozone have seriously retarded the growth of ozone-sensitive plants in agricultural areas of Long Island, N.Y., says a Cornell plant pathologist.
Here's a botanical twist: The more stress that is placed on wild populations of St. John's wort, the more effective the plant might be in warding off human depression, say Cornell and USDA plant pathologists at a meeting in New Orleans.
Cornell University has been chosen by NASA to lead the science team for the next mission to the surface of Mars, to be launched June 4, 2003, and land Jan. 20, 2004. Steven Squyres, Cornell professor of astronomy, will be principal investigator on the Athena science package to be carried by the rover.
It took most of the last century to build one of the finest potato germplasm repositories in the world. Soon it may be a worthless, genetic morgue. Scientists from Cornell University are leading an effort to save the valuable potato collection at the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry in Russia.
Toxic cadmium from abandoned mines in Colorado is destroying the bones of a little known bird, the white-tailed ptarmigan, and may be harming other Rocky Mountain wildlife, Cornell University ecologists report in the July 13, 2000, Nature.
Aerobic exercise -- and physical work -- are much harder for women who do not have adequate iron in their systems but who are not yet anemic, according to a Cornell University study in the Journal of Applied Physiology (Vol. 88, 2000).
To dramatize the techniques of nanotechnology, Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings presented to the White House the world's smallest saxophone, carved on a silicon chip.
When an investment bank is the lead underwriter of an initial public offering, its own analysts are biased in favor of the IPO, says a study by a Johnson School associate professor and a Dartmouth colleague (Review of Financial Studies).
The cellular mechanism that through millennia of evolution has created plump and juicy fruits and vegetables could be the same mechanism that triggers the proliferation of cancer cells in humans and animals, say Cornell scientists in Science (7-7-00).
Clinical trials in which human immunity to a virus has been triggered for the first time by a vaccine genetically engineered into a potato are reported by Cornell University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine scientists (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 7-00).
Journalists are invited to attend the Potato Late Blight Field Day in Toluca, Mexico, on Aug. 28 to tour affected fields, greenhouses and laboratories with agricultural scientists from Ireland, Poland, the U.S., Mexico and Canada who will be available for interviews.
In his 3-year study of officials at 71 U.S. construction companies, a Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations student showed that drug testing programs made the workplace significantly safer, for employees and the general public.
Ecologists at Cornell University and the Institute of Ecosystem Studies report in Nature that food-chain length is determined by the size of an ecosystem, not by the amount of available energy. Predators may therefore accumulate more contaminants in larger systems.
Cornell students took top honors in a national collegiate competition at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business for their proposal to create a winegrowers' cooperative and winery in Virginia that will help farmers there replace their tobacco crops with biodynamically grown grapes.
Cornell University, its Weill Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and The Rockefeller University announced the creation of a $160 million collaborative program in basic biological research focusing on new technologies such as computational biology and nanotechnology.
Two Cornell University preservation librarians have created a self-help reference guide called "Moving Theory Into Practice," a guide for librarians digitizing their resources.
A combination of plant chemicals collectively known as phytochemicals in the flesh of apples, and particularly in the skin, provide the fruit's anti-oxidant and anti-cancer benefits, say Cornell food scientists (Nature, 6-22-00).
Contrary to many opinions, the influence of environmental regulations on prices of new housing is only negligible, concludes a Cornell University housing study (Earth Day 2000 issue of the Electronic Green Journal).
Cancer researchers at Cornell University have learned how some proteins receive the marching orders that dispatch them to initiate signaling pathways and produce malignant cell transformation. The discovery offers new potential targets for anti-cancer drugs to block tumor growth (Nature, 6-15-00).
States that adopt more voluntary, rather than coercive, approaches to child support have more fathers who pay their support; such fathers also have better relationships with their child and the child's mother, says a Cornell University family policy expert (Journal of Human Resources).
What is the origin of the kick that causes the furious acceleration of the newly born neutron star? In an attempt to answer this question, an assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell University proposes two possible ways of firing up the kick.
The larvae of the viburnum leaf beetle -- a ravenous pest that feasts on cultivated and native viburnum shrubs, reducing them to skeletal remains -- emerged during early May in western and central New York State, Cornell University entomologists say.
A connection between cocaine use during pregnancy and attention dysfunction in children is suggested in a study by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Kentucky (Behavioral Neuroscience, 8-00).
"Don't Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years," by adolescent development experts Helen E. Johnson and Christine Schelhas-Miller, offers strategies and advice for reshaping parental relationships with their emerging adult children.
Instead of fighting for space, larger spiders in colonies rise early to claim the best spots, University of Cincinnati and Cornell University researchers have discovered (Animal Behaviour, 5-00).
Morning sickness experienced by two-thirds of pregnant women is nature's way of protecting mothers and fetuses from food-borne illness while shielding the fetus from chemicals that can deform its organs at the most critical time in its development, Cornell University researchers report (Quarterly Review of Biology, 6-00).
The NEAR spacecraft orbiting the asteroid has revealed the chemical composition of the asteroid Eros. The data indicate, according to a Cornell astronomer, that Eros is a primitive relic of the emergence of the solar system from a cloud of gas and dust.
A continentwide network of bird-feeding enthusiasts helped researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology prove a long-standing theory that a naturally occurring disease -- mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches -- can regulate a wildlife population (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5-2-00).
Cornell University senior Karl Papadantonakis creates graphic images of Henon maps, which produce multi-colored, swirling and complex images and could assist physicists in understanding such things as turbulent fluid flows, or astronomers to predict the sometimes erratic, periodic motion of celestial bodies.
The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.
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