For some years now, cancer researchers have known that cancerous tumors are fed nutrients and oxygen through blood vessels generated by endothelial cells. The hope is to develop drugs to prevent the cells from forming the blood vessels and thus starve the tumors. Cornell scientists describe a protein key to this process.
From the 13,000 volunteers who count birds for science in the continentwide Project FeederWatch, Cornell University ornithologists have collected solutions for birders who prefer not to count squirrels.
We should be as concerned about where our teenagers work as we are about their schools because youth employment can have either profoundly positive or disastrous effects on the nation's teen work force. Potential youth workplaces should obtain "seals of approval" before adolescents ever work in them, says Stephen Hamilton of Cornell University, who worked on the National Research Council Institute of Medicine report, "Protecting Youth at Work."
Cornell University today (Nov. 3, 1998) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for an exchange of agricultural, nutritional and environmental information, as well as community and rural development knowledge.
Contrary to popular perception and government statistics on corporate bankruptcies, more large public companies are filing for bankruptcy this year than in any year in history, except the "boom" years of 1990 to 1993. Data culled from a Cornell Law School professor's Bankruptcy Research Database also show that large public companies are filing for bankruptcy this year at a rate 57 percent higher than in 1997.
Far more than any other drink or food, alcohol is shown on prime-time programs. Characters, including adolescents, drink on more than 40 percent of the shows, according to a new Cornell University study published in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol.
In less than ten years, many employees will no longer have only health insurance but, also a medical savings accounts from their employers. Whatever's not spent will be saved for retirement, predict two Cornell University heath care management professors.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a group of Cornell University economists and engineers a multidisciplinary grant to study the effects of competitive markets on the reliable operation of the electricity supply system.
Cornell Theory Center announced today that the Power Systems Engineering Research Center , a consortium of universities led by Cornell University, has received $10 million for research on minimizing failures in complex networked systems, such as electrical, communications and distribution systems.
The elderly can largely compensate for their loss of function with grab bars and other helping devices, a good diet and, surprisingly, several drinks a day, according to Cornell University health economist Nandinee Kutty.
Many of the personal papers and records kept by Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals are now housed in the Cornell University Law Library, where they will be accessible to researchers, thanks to the efforts of New York lawyer and Cornell alumnus Henry Korn.
Cornell Cooperative Extension has published a 68-page manual, Prevention of Youth Violence, intended as a resource guide for youth-development and family-life professionals and volunteers. It identifies risk factors, summarizes major prevention programs and offers a variety of resources.
A.R. Ammons, Cornell professor emeritus, is the winner of the 1998 Tanning Prize for poetry. Ammons is the fifth person to receive the $100,000 award, granted through the American Academy of Poets. The award is named after Dorothea Tanning, a painter.
A $1.5 million, three-year NSF grant to the Cornell Theory Center will support a project in Multiscale Modeling of Defects in Solids, to enable computer simulations at scales ranging from the atomic level to the macroscopic to communicate with one another and show how defects at the atomic level can lead to the visible cracks we can see and measure in the everyday world.
To date, 1998 is running ahead of 1953, the Northeast's warmest year on record, according to the climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Trade in high-quality cacao may explain the longevity of an Olmec village in Puerto Escondido, Honduras, which survived from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000, according to Cornell and Berkeley archaeologists.
To honor the late Jean McKelvey, the first faculty member of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first woman to serve as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the United Auto Workers (UAW) awarded her posthumously the UAW Social Justice Award at their convention in June.
A Cornell food science student has found out why low-fat mozarella cheese becomes translucent when it cools, making it unappetizing. It is the water content in the cheese.
A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation's IGERT program will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems, embracing fields as diverse as manufacturing, neuroscience, epidemiology and even finance, where similar mathematics applies.
According to a Cornell University analysis of population trends, climate change, increasing pollution and emerging diseases, an estimated 40 percent of world deaths can now be attributed to various environmental factors, especially organic and chemical pollutants
A major exhibition about the literary career of Laura (Riding) Jackson will open Oct. 8 in the Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library on the Cornell University campus.
Evaluating how suitable our homes are for aging should be just as routine as financial planning, says Cornell University housing expert, Joseph Laquatra. Adapting homes for age-related disabilities would help the elderly age in place and live independently and would reduce the need for long-term care.
Survey shows that a $10 investment to enroll in MONEY 2000, a Cornell Cooperative Extension financial education program, reaped an average $5,000 gain in net worth for participants one year later. Just six months in the program , more than half the participants were already paying bills on time, reducing their credit use, saving money, using a budget and reducing what they owed.
Developed by the Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State, a newly enhanced site addresses the roles that pesticides, diet, lifestyle and genetics may play in breast cancer risk, and offers strategies on what women and others, including policy makers, can do to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
The Northeast's three-month summer season (June through August) saw record-setting amounts of rainfall over parts of New England. In the 12-state Northeast region, summer saw 12.73 inches of rain, or 109 percent of normal. But the Northeast's August precipitation of only 3.06 inches was 79 percent of normal, making it the region's 24th driest August on record.
Jupiter's intricate, swirling ring system is formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's four small inner moons, according to scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
Acid-resistant E. coli O157:H7 bacteria that survive human stomach acid to cause intestinal illness in thousands of people each year are coming from grain-fed cattle, Cornell University and USDA microbiologists report in the Sept. 11, 1998, issue of the journal "Science." In the same article, the researchers propose a solution to the food-safety problem.
Astronomers analyzing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft will announce they have solved a long-standing mystery, the origin of Jupiter's rings, at a news briefing on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at noon, EDT, at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in the ILR Conference Center.
The first-known examples of glass from the Iron I archaeological era were found in the Cornell University research area of the Tel Dor, Israel, archaeological site, according to Jeffrey Zorn, Cornell visiting lecturer in Near Eastern studies.
Tiny plastic pellets, some miscrocopic in size, containing a natural protein, hold the promise of one day being able to treat such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's. The system is startlingly effective because it targets, within a fraction of an inch, the area of the brain where cell death is causing the devastating illness.
As the "father" of airline industry deregulation, Cornell University's Alfred E. Kahn discusses how to best deregulate the electric power and telecommunications industries in his new book.
The Cornell University Food Industry Management Distance Education Program (DEP) is now offering a food-safety certification programs for food retailers at both the state and national levels.
Cornell University researchers have reported significant progress in making a new generation of transistors based on gallium nitride, a material that promises to deliver up to a hundred times as much power at microwave frequencies as the semiconductors now used in cellular telephones, military radar and satellite transmitters.
Cornell professor Dominick LaCapra's new book, "History and Memory After Auschwitz," examines interactions of history, memory, ethics and politics in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Cornell food scientist believes he has found the alcohol-content threshold that separates fine fruit wine from cheap, inferior wine -- what the British call "plonk. " As a result, full, robust-flavor fruit or vegetable wines could be available on a wider basis.
Eating disorders are a turnoff about equally for college men and women, but not so for obesity: Men are much more uncomfortable dating an obese person that women are, says Jeffery Sobal, a nutritional sociologist and associate professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University.
Cornell University will be part of a national consortium of seven universities chosen to take part in an ambitious national semiconductor research effort, the Focus Center Research Program, funded by federal, state and industry dollars. The venture's aim is to develop a new generation of more powerful computer chips by devising new methods to connect microchip components.
Cornell University will host the Vladimir Nabokov Centenary Festival, September 10-12, featuring songs, scholars, the son of Nabokov--and William F. Buckley, Jr. playing Edmund Wilson
A Cornell researcher has found that certain female paper wasps (Polistes dominulus) "sit and wait" to adopt orphaned nests or steal nests from other queens.
If the United States approves the climate change Kyoto Protocol, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be reduced to 7 percent below the 1990 level. Cornell economists have an idea on how to do it.
A Cornell University engineer believes it is possible to limit destruction from the type of tsunami that hit Papua New Guinea on July 17 with proper coastal management, such as building structures like sea walls, and creating zoning policies banning building in high-risk areas. He believes the effect of the 30-foot-high ocean wave was due both to the flatness of the land and the flimsy nature of the buildings.
Cornell University undergraduate student Greg Aloe nose dives into weightlessness on NASA's KC-135 to study how granular objects separate in microgravity .
June 13 will go down in the record books in Boston and Providence, R.I., as the wettest June day on record in the two New England cities. It was the second-wettest June for Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and West Virginiat since official records began in 1895, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Right now, Melissa Loewenstern is in the Iron Age. By summer's end, she hopes to land in the Bronze Age. This Cornell student is spending her summer excavating an archaeological site in Israel. Read her latest dispatches from Tel Dor, a site rich in the history of biblical times.
Cornell University Press has aroused attention and controversy by publishing Jodi Dean's "Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace."
Cornell University's astronomy department is working in a newly defined role on NASA's Mars Surveyor lander mission scheduled for launch in April 2001. Although the Cornell-led Athena Rover vehicle will not be included in the mission as previously planned, Cornell will continue to provide most of the science for the 2001 lander.
Squash beetle pupae would be easy picking for predators if they hadn't perfected the skill known as combinatorial chemistry that pharmaceutical researchers are just now learning. By combining three simple molecules into complex defensive compounds and secreting them through microscopic body hairs, Epilachna borealis pupae can thwart just about anything that would eat them.
World governments might be more successful in removing the nearly 100 million children from the labor market by working to increase adult wages and employment rates rather than pursuing legislative action against child labor, which could be effective only in certain countries, say two Cornell University economists
Cornell University's new Master of Industrial and Labor Relations degree is hot: All 37 graduates of the program were hired months before commencement.
Cornell University Professor Alison Lurie publishes The Last Resort, her tenth novel and her first in ten years.
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