"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.
To encourage more minority students to apply to the S. C. Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and to reinforce ties with minority alumni around the country, the school has launched the "Pipeline to the 21st Century" initiative, funded by a grant from Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney.
Scheduled this year for Feb. 16-19, 2001, the 4th annual Great Backyard Bird Count asks computer users to log on and tell scientists where the birds are.
The Feminism and Legal Theory Project of the Cornell Law will sponsor an exchange program for students and faculty among the United States, Northern Ireland and Canada, thanks to an anonymous $824,000 grant.
Low-level noise in offices can result in more stress and lower task motivation, which may contribute to heart and musculoskeletal problems, according to a study by a Cornell environmental psychologist. (Journal of Applied Psychology)
A severe shortage of nursing assistants and other personnel in nursing homes is resulting in more injuries, careless errors and deaths, risk of abuse and nursing home shutdowns, says a Cornell University gerontologist.
Women who gain more than the amount recommended during pregnancy are four times more likely to be obese one year after giving birth compared with mothers who gain within the recommended range, says a Cornell University nutritionist.
Cornell University Library's Core Historical Literature of Agriculture is an electronic collection of the most important agricultural texts published between the early 19th century and the mid-20th century which can be read in full online.
In an annual event, Cornell marketing expert and students will rate Super Bowl commercials for success.
Cornell University undergraduate researchers are distributing qVIX, a free, open-source videoconferencing application that provides full-motion, 30-frame-per-second video in full color on Linux-based computers, based on an improved video compression algorithm developed by a Cornell professor.
Is your asparagus ailing? Can your melons be suffering a malady? Find out what's hurting your corn and cucurbits at Vegetable MD Online, a free service of the Cornell University plant pathology department.
It is the class heard 'round the world: a Cornell distance-learning course in which students from the Americas, Europe, Australia and India are linked electronically to learn about international food issues and examine worldwide agricultural sustainability.
Cornell University Library's "Project Harvest" will explore the idea of creating permanent electronic archives for the digital editions of scholarly journals, with the goal of setting up a pilot archive of agricultural journals.
A Cornell-sponsored conference "Gross National Product vs. Quality of Life: Balancing Work and Family," 1/29-2/2 at Bellagio Center in Italy, will "readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line," says co-director Betty Friedan.
After more than two years in space, NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite has provided radio astronomers with one definite conclusion about the clouds of gas and dust that make up the bulk of the mass in our galaxy, the Milky Way: water vapor and oxygen are scarce.
A new tax on meat and other products near the top of the food chain would improve environmental sustainability, according to Cornell ecologist and co-author of the new book, "Ecological Integrity."
Cornell University rural sociologists, studying the impact of Hungary's Act 77, found that many Gypsy minority self-governments are the driving forces of local development and that local, social networks greatly influence the local government's activities. (Social Problems, 5-00)
Arabidopsis thaliana is the first plant to reveal its primordial origins. Cornell researchers found genetic evidence of its emergence between 50 million and 200 million years ago. The work could unlock genetic knowledge of important traits in agricultural crops like corn, tomatoes and wheat. (Science Dec. 15, 2000).
Cornell University researchers have developed a method for creating comparative gene maps on a computer, reducing a process that sometimes takes months by hand to a few hours.
New York women's economic equality and political participation lag behind other states, says a new report, "The Status of Women in the States 2000," released by the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University
Cornell University researchers have received a NSF one-year grant of $799,085 to develop a proposed architecture for the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library.
Cornell University will create an online library of solid earth geoscience information as part of the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library for science education. The library will include tools that make the information useful to students at all levels from K-12 up.
A study by Cornell University librarians shows that many World Wide Web addresses cited in student term-paper bibliographies often are incorrect, or refer to documents that no longer exist. (J. of the American Society for Information Science)
A first for the Ivy League, the Ven. Tenzin Gephel, a monk at the Namgyal Monastery in downtown Ithaca, became the first Tibetan Buddhist chaplain at Cornell United Religious Work.
People will be able to retrieve the law as it stood at any point in time, thanks to a $100,000 grant to Cornell's Legal Information Institute from the Red Hat Center, a nonprofit foundation in North Carolina that seeks to make shared information freely available to the public.
The balance of predator and prey once seemed so complex that only a supercomputer could predict the outcome. Ecologists at Cornell University and North Carolina State University have developed a simpler mathematical model with which many seemingly complex problems in population dynamics can run on a desktop computer.
Biologists at Cornell University and University of California at Santa Cruz say highly competitive mating strategies follow rules of the "Rock Paper Scissors" game, allowing different strategies to coexist -- in lizard societies if not among humans. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 12-5-00)
A new book, "Social Integration in the Second Half of Life" co-edited by several Cornell professors, explores how social connections people have in later life serve as a buffer against stress and promote well-being.
Cornell University is consuming a lot less energy and helping regional electric power plants release fewer pollutants into the air thanks to the university's innovative lake source cooling (LSC) installation.
A Cornell Law School professor and an attorney suggest that abstinence-only sex education promotes a religious agenda and violates the First Amendment's "establishment of religion" clause. (The Southern California Review of Law)
A book by a Cornell Professor examines how we mourn today, from the Vietnam memorial controversy, to Princess Diana's funeral, to the AIDS quilt.
Chief theater critic at the Chicago Reader, is winner of the 1999-2000 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The $10,000 prize is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater.
Nanobiotechnologists at Cornell University have built and pilot-tested the first biomolecular motors the size of virus particles with tiny metal propellers. (Science, 11-24-00)
In a recent series of studies, Cornell University neurobiologists are showing why females of some avian species choose suitors with the most elaborate courtship songs. (Proceedings of the Royal Society)
A new web site, developed by Cornell University health educators and the Drowsy Driving Coalition of Tompkins County, offers up-to-date prevention information, including simple steps that can save lives when drivers start to feel sleepy.
Cornell University and the University of Southern California will use a seed grant of $175,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce to launch the new National Center for Eco-Industrial Development to promote community development without trashing the environment.
In a war against the European corn borer, a major pest of sweet corn, Cornell University scientists have found that an army of tiny wasps, released just once and early in the season, can reduce damage to ears of corn by half. (Journal of Biological Control)
Exploiting the "six degrees of separation" concept, a Cornell University sociologist has developed "respondent-driven" sampling to find scientifically valid, representative samples of "hidden populations" from drug injectors to jazz musicians. (Poetics, 11-00)
With support from major industrial partners, Cornell University has opened an industrial-quality laboratory for design and testing of radio-frequency integrated circuits.
A Cornell University research team has uncovered the mechanics of a critical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen that one day could have profound implications for the future of energy production. (Science, 11-3-00)
Hotel School professor and co-author found that hotels where employees report their managers' words align well with their deeds reap much higher profits, as much as $250,000 more a year, than hotels where that doesn't happen. The finding may be applicable to all businesses and organizations.
While most Americans enjoyed extraordinary economic well-being in the past decade, the nearly 10 percent of the working-age population who have disabilities suffered an unprecedented decline in employment during this time, researchers at Cornell University and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco report.
A book by cultural historian Michael Steinberg showing the link between Austrian nationalism, Nazi ideals and the Salzburg Music Festival, just reissued in paperback, has garnered Austria's Victor Adler Staatspreis.
After analyzing data from the 1999-2000 warmest winter in 105 years, researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology look to a continent-wide network of volunteers to answer the question: Where will North American birds turn up next?
A Cornell University parent-education program has shown it can double, and often triple, the likelihood that parents will discuss risk reduction for HIV, the AIDS virus, with their children, make personal risk behavior changes and obtain HIV testing.
The longer a surgeon has had his license and the fewer times he does a certain surgery to prevent strokes, the poorer his patients' outcome, according to new Cornell University study on surgeons and carotid endarterectomies (removing plaque from the carotid artery) published in the September issue of Neurology.
According to researchers at Cornell University and Ohio State University, daily newspapers, not television news, motivate highly educated people into civic participation, creating a civic-participation gap between people with high and low education levels. (Political Communication, 9-00)
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