The raunchy reputation of backyard composting is both undeserved and unnecessary, according to waste-management educators at Cornell University who reveal a few tricks of the trade in a new instructional video, "Compost Truth or Consequences."
Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program now offers all assignments and exams electronically via e-mail. It offers 40 course offerings in supermarket, food distribution and convenient store issues.
For beef producers looking for new ways to economically and efficiently feed their cattle, Cornell University animal researchers have shown the effectiveness of an unusual diet: Let them eat bread -- and other commercial bakery leftovers and scraps.
The first half of this year was the warmest Jan. 1 to June 30 period for the Northeast since records were first kept in 1895, according to climatologist Keith Eggleston at the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University.
The photo exhibit "Sisters in Spirit: Celebrating the Iroquois Influence on the Early Women's Rights Movement" opened June 27 at the Urban Cultural Park/Heritage Area Visitor Center in Seneca Falls, NY. Cornell University provided expertise.
The bitter taste commonly associated with packaged grapefruit juice has long soured many potential consumers. But now Cornell University food scientists say they have developed a special type of "active" container that significantly reduces the bitterness.
How to cut through the racket and find Mr. Right? Now Cornell University biologists who study a homely fish that hums say they have a clue. The auditory portion of the midbrain uses the acoustic qualities of all the noise to isolate one signal it is programmed to recognize as potentially interesting -- at least in midshipman fish and possibly in people.
Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has won a $55,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
A Cornell University professor has figured out for the first time the fundamental physics of why eggs explode when microwaved. That knowledge could translate into billions of dollars for the food industry and more nutritious foods with reliable microwaving instructions for consumers.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities is helping to identify and preserve state and local historical literature about agriculture and rural life in the period from 1820 to 1945. Cornell University's Mann Library is directing the project, in which land-grant university libraries in 15 states are microfilming the publications.
Despite the high cost, 40 percent of Americans over age 70, regardless of income, have modified their homes with grab bars, bathroom railings, wheelchair ramps and other aids, regardless of their income, reports Nandinee Kutty, assistant professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University.
Cornell professor Neal Zaslaw is the first American to edit the Koechel catalogue that lists Mozart's works, compiled by Ludwig Ritter von Koechel and first published in 1862. Zaslaw's edition, the fifth or the ninth, depending on how one counts, will be the first to be published in both German and English. He expects it to be controversial.
An exclusive research and license agreement was announced today (June 14) by the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, N.Y., and Axis Genetics, PLC, Cambridge, England. It links two organizations with complementary goals and expertise in creating a new generation of oral vaccines.
Cornell University physicists have successfully measured the frequency at which atoms in a bond are vibrating in a single molecule of acetylene. The research for the first time provides a way to identify single molecules by their vibrational signatures and to study how their bonds change during chemical processes. It could lead to better understanding of how catalysts work and a new way to study biological molecules like DNA.
Seemingly oblivious to the video camera in the ceiling of their home, a pair of tree swallows at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology are raising a family in full view of the World Wide Web. The birds at Birdsource on the WWW are the most public avian participants in the Cornell Nest Box Network.
A project incorporated into introductory courses in the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences teaches students how to find and contact alumni advisors for career advice, and helps them get over any fears of contacting strangers.
Effective senior management teams play a greater role in company success than charismatic CEOs, according to a new study by Randall S. Peterson of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. In successful companies, the study found, the CEO fosters healthy group dynamics among his immediate subordinates.
Radio astronomers have found a way to use the twinkling of stars to measure the velocity and distance of speeding neutron stars called pulsars that have escaped from the galaxy. Cornell University professor of astronomy James Cordes and Barney Rickett, an astronomer at the University of California, San Diego, have devised a method that combines computer modeling with two of the world's largest radio telescope, the Very Long Baseline Array and the Arecibo Observatory, to measure the speed and distance of pulsars well above the galactic plane.
Male college athletes consume about 50 percent more alcohol than their counterparts who don't participate in intercollegiate sports, a record beaten only by college fraternity members, as shown in a study published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
It's a world filled with bondage, supreme sacrifice, and cannibalism as a mating ritual. Welcome to Cornell's Entomology 215, where students learn about the biological world of spiders.
Just as Kevin Bacon connects almost every actor to every other, adding only a few shortcuts to an otherwise orderly network greatly increases the overall connectivity, Cornell mathematicians have shown. The work has implications for many kinds of networks, including those in communications, physiology and models for the spread of disease.
Inertial confinement fusion research at Cornell University has received its first two direct infusions of funds from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The research focuses on the use of X-rays to bombard and explode hair-thin tungsten wires, creating a plasma contained by a brief but intense magnetic field.
Almost 40 percent, or about 184 million, of the developing world's children under 5 outside of China have stunted growth, reports a Cornell University nutritionist and statistician. Although stunting is declining by about .5 of a percentage point each year, more than half the children in some regions of the developing world, such as Southeast Asia, have severe growth deficits, says Edward Frongillo, associate professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell.
In a move designed to enhance the stature of Jewish studies at Cornell, university officials have announced the creation of three new named professorships in Jewish Studies.
Contrary to widely accepted theory, less-informed investors consistently tend to "buy high and sell low," systematically transferring their wealth to better-informed traders through overly aggressive trading, according to a ground-breaking study at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Poor children in America face multiple stressors that threaten their biology and psychology, says James Garbarino, professor of human development at Cornell University. Yet, conventional economic barometers paint rosy economic pictures mask that the demise of children in trouble.
Contrary to widely accepted efficient markets theory, less-informed investors consistently tend to "buy high and sell low," systematically transferring their wealth to better-informed traders through overly aggressive trading, according to a ground-breaking study of investor confidence and knowledge by three professors at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The researchs used laboratory experiements to test investor behavior.
Cornell University Library has acquired the Maeda Collection, the personal library of Japanese literary scholar and critic Maeda Ai.
A new book by Cornell professor of materials science Stephen L. Sass is a tour of the history of civilization, from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, into the Iron Age and thence to the Industrial Revolution and the age of technology. Included are the developments of glass and concrete, polymers, aluminum and the silicon chip.
Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers from around the world who have been chosen by Merrill Scholars, who are top students at the university. The teachers will be brought to campus and recognized for their inspirational teaching with a $4,000 scholarship in their names for future Cornell students from their schools or regions.
Volunteering boosts self-esteem and energy and gives Americans a sense of mastery over their lives, particularly in later midlife, says a new Cornell University study.
Lead in the drinking water of pregnant rats causes long-term damage to the immune systems of their offspring, according to studies in the Cornell University Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology. The finding in rats -- if it holds true for pregnant human mothers exposed to lead -- could help explain the beginnings of a lifelong susceptibility to asthma and other allergies, as well as cancers.
Cornell students, using a new urban planning computer software, suggest new uses for Brooklyn's Greenpoint Terminal
Sucessful management teams -- those with both a "directive" leader and openness to new information--were best able to mobilize the energies and talents throughout an organization, according to a new study at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
The long-sought goal of turning hydrogen into a metal, it has been predicted, would require pressure comparable to that found at the center of the Earth. Researchers at Cornell University have now dispelled that theory: They submitted hydrogen gas to just such pressure, but the element remained unchanged.
A Boston-area physician and his wife have contrbuted $2.75 million toward Cornell University's Hillel program.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Cornell University Food Product Development Team, made of undergraduate students and graduate, has been named as one of six finalists in the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1998 Product Development Competition, to be held in Atlanta June 20-22. This year's novel Cornell food product is called Wrapidos, and is engineered so that the food juices don't drip on your clothes.
As the wave of brilliantly colored songbirds sweeps northward across the United States and Canada from South and Central America, scientists at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society recruit thousands of citizen birdwatchers to log-on to http://birdsource.cornell.edu/ and tell them where the warblers are.
The Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Managment, which offers two-year, full-tuition fellowships to 30 of the nation's top MBA applicants each year, has appointed its first director. Clint Sidle, who has taken on that role, will direct the Fellows program and help develop the other components of the Johnson School's leadership development offerings, including hte Distinguished Speakers series,the Young Leaders series, the annual Leadership Forum, and the Johnson Mentor Program.
Hard-to-place children who are adopted in New York State receive "vastly different levels of support," sometimes half that of a similar child living in a nearby county, says a new Cornell University study. Some of the most vulnerable children are not being treated equally, and low support may inhibit adoption rates, leaving children to linger in foster care, says Rosemary Avery, associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell.
Minority and handicapped children in the New York state foster care system who qualify for subsidies are twice as likely to get adopted as other children, according to a Cornell University study by Rosemary Avery. She has completed one of the most comprehensive studies tracking the outcome of foster care children. However, she notes, 90 percent of the foster children available for adoption in the state get adopted.
Students at Cornell are learning to conduct online searches for corporate clients in search of competitive information
Cornell University Law Library has become an official mirror site for the International Labour Organization
Starting salaries, signing bonuses, and other job perks have sent the total compensation package for MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management up to $117,000. That's up 29% from last year's total of $92,000.
Cornell astronomer Philip Nicholson and his colleagues have proposed to name the two recently discovered moons of the planet Uranus Caliban and Sycorax, both characters in Shakespeare's play "The Tempest." The astronomers confirm that the two moons, whose discovery was announced on Oct. 31, are the faintest planetary satellites yet imaged by ground-based telescopes.
In the new book "Escaping the Advice Trap," two Cornell psychologists ask more than 100 experts how they would respond to 59 tough relationship problems. Then, Wendy M. Williams and Stephen Ceci, both professors in the department of human development at Cornell University, offer a bottom-line analysis for each dilemma.
A Cornell University study provides new evidence that curriculum-based external exit exams not only enhanced student achievement, but also increased the earnings of graduating seniors who took them.. It also showed that students who took remedial or basic courses earned less than their peers who enrolled in more challenging courses.
If current clinical trials are successful, within a few years the daily insulin injection for diabetes could be a thing of the past. A new type of dry insulin-delivery system, the result of research at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., an affiliate of Cornell University, is now undergoing the second phase of human clinical trials required by the Food and Drug Administration.
Results from the primary phase of the first-ever human clinical trial of a vaccine genetically implanted inside a food indicate that consumption results in immunity to specific diseases. The test of the vaccine was made with vaccine-containing potatoes developed at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., (BTI) an affiliate of Cornell University. The human clinical study was conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development in Baltimore.
Betty Friedan will join the Cornell University faculty as a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations to direct a $1 million, four-year project, New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy," at the Institute for Women and Work that will attempt to transform the feminist ideals and practices she catalyzed more than 30 years ago into a broader societal and workplace agenda for the new century.
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