Released: 24-Oct-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Sensors to measure tsunamis in real time
Cornell University

Researchers from Cornell, USC, Harvard and the University of Washington plan to deploy bottom-pressure recorders (BPR's) and seismic instrument arrays for real-time monitoring of tsunami development and study sea-floor deformation that occurs during earthquakes that turn into tsunamis.

Released: 21-Jan-1998 12:00 AM EST
Volunteerism forum
Cornell University

Research and trends in volunteering will be the subject of the National Forum on Life Cycles and Volunteering: The Impact of Work, Family, and Mid-Life Issues, held April 30 and May 1, 1998 at Cornell University.

Released: 17-Feb-1998 12:00 AM EST
Some women's workplace inequality grows
Cornell University

A new study by a Cornell University labor economist found that women have made "substantial progress" in gender equality over the past 25 years, increasing their presence in the labor market and narrowing the wage gap with men, but provides dramatic evidence that the economic status of less-educated women is deteriorating.

Released: 20-Feb-1998 12:00 AM EST
Campus drug and alcohol report released
Cornell University

"Alcohol and Drugs on American College Campuses: Issues of Violence and Harassment," a report published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), is being mailed this week to college presidents nationwide. The report is based on surveys from 89,874 students at 171 institutions and describes issues of collegiate violence, harassment and campus climate.

Released: 14-Mar-1998 12:00 AM EST
Three share national drama criticism award
Cornell University

1998 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism awarded to Ben Brantley, The New York Times; Elinor Fuchs, author of The Death of Character (Indiana University Press); and Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists and columnist for American Theater magazine.

Released: 7-Jul-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Cornell food industry courses go electronic
Cornell University

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.

Released: 3-Jul-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Feeding Bread to Beef Cattle
Cornell University

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.

Released: 3-Jul-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Early 1988 Warmest on Record in Northeast
Cornell University

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.

Released: 27-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EST
Cornell to study power grid breakdowns
Cornell University

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.

Released: 12-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Staring and squirming help babies explore
Cornell University

Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell University developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.

Released: 12-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Spacecraft to study Mars, birth of stars
Cornell University

Two NASA launches this week carried Cornell Astronomers' projects. The Mars Climate Orbiter 's Mars Color Imager (MARCI) will send high-resolution color images of the planet. The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) will study the conditions that lead to the birth of stars, a process now hidden deep within obscuring clouds of interstellar dust and gas.

Released: 9-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Computer fix saves asteroid images
Cornell University

Some 240 million miles from Earth, a spacecraft hurtled through the black void of space, off its intended course. But thanks to the creation of a last-minute fix by Cornell University mission engineers during a tense 24 hours just before Christmas, the $150 million mission now has hundreds of new images of a distant asteroid.

Released: 19-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Life in womb Determines Adult Health
Cornell University

Presenting the case that a lifetime of poor health -- from coronary artery disease and stroke to obesity and diabetes -- may start with poor conditions in the womb, a Cornell University researcher and author foresees three possible outcomes from publication of his latest book, Life in the Womb: The Origin of Health and Disease (Promethean Press, 1999)

Released: 20-Mar-1999 12:00 AM EST
Tagore Endowment in Indian Literature
Cornell University

The South Asia Program at Cornell University announced the creation of the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature to bring distinguished South Asian writers to the campus, made possible through a generous gift by Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Mrs. Suman Prabhu.

Released: 23-Apr-1999 12:00 AM EDT
USAF funds study of 'hard' computer problems
Cornell University

Cornell computer scientist Carla Gomes has received three grants totaling $858,782 from the U. S. Air Force to study methods of speeding the computer solutions of problems that involve testing many possible combinations of variables and constraints, such as in scheduling and design of manufacturing systems. Her methods short-circuit problems with "heavy tails," where there may be a vast number of wrong answers.

Released: 23-Apr-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Web site explores deaths of patriarchal rulers
Cornell University

"Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Closure in Political Authority," a new Cornell University web site, will allow faculty, students and researchers from around the world to explore the socio-political fallout that followed the death of six 20th-century patriarchs, including Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin, Ceausescu, Mussolini and Tito.

Released: 24-Apr-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Satellite conference on youth violence
Cornell University

Cornell University Cooperative Extension will air "Not in My School, Not in My Community," a live panel discussion on youth violence. The broadcast, available free of charge to television stations, television networks, schools, county extension offices and others able to downlink from a satellite, will air Monday, April 26 at 3 p.m., EDT.

Released: 8-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
Cornell University

Men and women taking selenium supplements for 10 years had 41 percent less total cancer than those taking a placebo, a new study by Cornell University and the University of Arizona shows. This is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled cancer prevention study with humans that directly supports the thesis that a nutritional supplement of selenium, as a single agent, can reduce the risk of cancer

   
Released: 8-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Cornell-Quebec Project to Stop Raccoon Rabies
Cornell University

Concerned that raccoon rabies could infect wildlife and humans, Canadian authorities are reaching across the border to help support oral vaccination programs in Northeastern states by veterinarians and wildlife biologists from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

   
Released: 8-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Northeast Has Wettest Year Ever in 1996
Cornell University

The 12-state Northeast was sopping, soggy, soaked and sodden as the region sloshed its way to the wettest year in more than a century -- 102 years of official records -- with 53.89 inches of precipitation. This easily broke the old record set in 1972 by 2.55 inches, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.

Released: 8-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Benefits of New Diet Drug Don't Outweigh Risks
Cornell University

The benefits of Redux (d-fenfluramine) don't outweigh the risks, according to Cornell University nutritionist David Levitsky,who has examined the 40 studies on long-term use of the diet pill. "People do lose weight more easily with than with a placebo, but the advantage of taking the medication over a placebo after a year is less than 5-and-a-half pounds."

   
Released: 14-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Revised Guide Offers Teen Parenting Curriculum
Cornell University

What educators can teach young parents about becoming good parents is the topic of a new and revised curriculum from Cornell University.

Released: 14-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Expeditions Study Indian Herbal Medicines
Cornell University

Student ethnobotany expeditions to the Venezuelan Amazon and Mexican Yucatan are identifying plant-based medicinals used by indigenous peoples for centuries. Potential antibiotics, contraceptives and insect-bite remedies are among the chemical compounds under analysis by Cornell University students, whose expenses are paid by the Minority International Research Training Program of the National Institutes of Health.

Released: 14-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Misidentified Bog Beetle 'Discovered' at Cornell
Cornell University

Platynus indecentis, a "bog beetle" misidentified for 85 years, has been discovered in a Cornell insect collection and given proper species identification.

Released: 17-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Potato Late Blight War on in Several Countries
Cornell University

The scientific battle against the devastating fungal strain Phytophthora infestans -- commonly known as potato late blight -- has been elevated on international fronts, according to a report released this month by the Cornell-Eastern Europe-Mexico (CEEM) International Collaborative Project in Potato Late Blight Control. P. infestans, the fungus blamed for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, is currently staging a resurgence . Scientists agree the new strains are far more aggressive than the original outbreak 150 years ago.

Released: 22-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Laser Microscope Images Serotonin in Live Cells
Cornell University

Cornell University researchers, using non-linear laser-microscope technology developed at Cornell, have produced images displaying the neurotransmitter serotonin in live cells in real time, and they have for the first time measured the concentration of serotonin in secretory granules. Embargoed: 01/23/97 4 p.m.

Released: 22-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
End Irrigation Subsidies And Reward Conservation
Cornell University

Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns. As a start, governments should end irrigation subsidies that encourage inefficient use of water and instead reward conservation.

   
Released: 22-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Groundhog Season Cycles Apply To Human Medicine
Cornell University

An endocrinologist and reproductive in Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, has been studying the dramatic seasonal cycles that profoundly alter the groundhog's reproductive activity, food intake, basal metabolism, body fat and total body weight from season to season. Groundhogs have more dramatic annual biological rhythms than nearly all other mammals and may provide key clues into better understanding cancer and cancer treatment, blood cell functions, brain activity and mental health.

   
Released: 24-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Fourth Warmest Northeast December In 102 Years
Cornell University

Throughout the 12-state Northeast region, temperatures were well above normal during December. The region reported an average temperature departure of 6 degrees above normal, which was warm enough to make it the fourth warmest December on record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. The normal average temperature for the region is 27.5 degrees, while weather observers measured 33.5 degrees this year.

Released: 26-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Child Support Better Than Welfare For Children
Cornell University

Children who benefit from child support payments seem to fare better in cognitive development and educational attainment than those who obtain the same amount of money from welfare, according to a Cornell University study. And when child support stems from an agreement between parents rather than a court-ordered one, the children do even better, according to Elizabeth Peters, Cornell professor of consumer economics and housing.

Released: 31-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Upstate New Yorkers open to NYC watershed deal
Cornell University

The resentment public officials feared would prevent a watershed agreement between New York City and municipalities along the Hudson River watershed was not very deep, a Cornell University study has found.

Released: 31-Jan-1997 12:00 AM EST
Adoptive parents favor opening sealed records
Cornell University

Parents of adopted children in New York are overwhelmingly in favor of laws that allow adult adoptees access to information in their birth certificates about their birth parents, according to a new Cornell University study.

Released: 4-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Internet chat during Alaska rocket launch
Cornell University

A Cornell University rocket scientist, in cooperation with NASA and a local science museum, will be available online via the Internet to "chat" live with anyone who wants to learn about what they are up to in a remote part of Alaska blasting rockets into the upper atmosphere.

Released: 6-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Cornell to lead NSF power systems research center
Cornell University

Cornell leads a new national center in power systems research established by the National Science Foundation.

Released: 11-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Childhood Sex Abuse Impacts Adult Relationships
Cornell University

Cornell clinical psychologist and gradate student find that sexually abused girls have less secure intimate relationships and compromised interpersonal functioning in adulthood.

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
New Green Revolution: Adding Micronutrients
Cornell University

Thirty years after the first Green Revolution, Cornell researchers want to kick-start another one. This time, they want to add micronutrients to staple crops, making the food we eat even more nutritious. Embargo Date: 02/18/97

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Once-Helpful Social Rules Now Cause Dysfunction
Cornell University

Some of the same evolutionary "predispositions" that held together extended families for our hunter-gatherer ancestors -- and even prototypical nuclear families until recently -- are partly to blame for today's dysfunction, conflict and violence within fractured families, Cornell University biologist Stephen Emlen reported Feb. 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Embargo Date: 02/14/97

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Cornell Ornithologist Lauds Use Of Volunteers
Cornell University

Hundreds of students in schools across the United States are helping biologists research questions about birds, a Cornell University ornithologist told an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) session on classroom science Feb. 16. When scientists and school children collaborate, everyone gains, said Andre Dhondt. Embargo Date: 02/16/97

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
'Birdsource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
Cornell University

One of the most comprehensive World Wide Web sites for amateur bird-watchers and professional ornithologists, BirdSource, opened for business Feb. 14 by accepting data from participants in Project FeederWatch at http://www.ornith.cornell.edu/CS/PFW/main.html. Co-managed by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society and constructed by the Cornell Theory Center, the Web site was demonstrated at the Seattle annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Embargo Date: 02/14/97

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Cornell Researchers Combat The Onion Bulb Mite
Cornell University

The onion bulb mite -- Rhizoglyphus robini -- has begun to attack some of New York's prized onion fields. Cornell University scientists are studying management techniques to control it.

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Gold: Life on Mars May Still Exist
Cornell University

Life on Mars probably did and may still exist, a Cornell astronomer says. Mars, like Earth, has a "deep, hot biosphere" teeming with microbial life well beneath the surface, Tom Gold told the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Embargo Date: 02/13/97

Released: 13-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Tensegrities Help Understand Toys, Molecules
Cornell University

Tensegrity structures that bounce back to shape after being deformed require complicated mathematics, a Cornell expert told an audience at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Embargo Date: 02/14.97

Released: 18-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Plants need Vitamin C, too
Cornell University

Just as virtamin C protects humans and many animals from environmental stress, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell have found that mutant plants lacking vitamin C had shriveled leaves, and when grown in an ozone-contained environment, they were not able to cope with the environmental stress, and were hypersensitive to sulfur dioxide and ultraviolet B radiation.

Released: 20-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
Bioacousticians track whales hunting giant squid
Cornell University

When the National Geographic Society hunt for living giant squid sends sperm whales with video cameras to the ocean depths this month off New Zealand's South Island, the camerawhales will be tracked by the Cornell University Bioacoustics Research program. Distinctive click sounds produced by diving sperm whales will reveal their whereabouts to an array of hydrophones hanging vertically in the water, using Cornell equipment that pinpoints sound sources.

Released: 26-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
NY Ginseng Growers Hope Forests Are Enchanted
Cornell University

A new cooperative team of researchers at Cornell University and the North American Ginseng Association is going to find out if cultivating ginseng will be an economic boost. Ginseng, the herbal remedy used by Chinese healers for more than 4,000 years, grows wild in New York, where growers are beginning to see a blossoming industry.

Released: 6-Mar-1997 12:00 AM EST
El Niño Stops Long Temperature Runs in Northeast
Cornell University

Northeast Regional Climate Center climatologist finds that long-term temperature runs in the Northeast end when and if an El Niño weather event develops in the Pacific Ocean.

Released: 12-Mar-1997 12:00 AM EST
"Shake Table" Shows Effects Of Earthquake
Cornell University

In Cornell University's concrete lab, a shake table was used to test, for the first time, whether interior infilled concrete/masonry walls have an effect on structural integrity during an earthquake.

Released: 13-Mar-1997 12:00 AM EST
Students Nap, but Most Americans Are Drowsy
Cornell University

More college students are grabbing midday "power naps" to restore their mind and body function. But students still aren't getting enough sleep, and neither are most Americans, says Cornell University psychologist and sleep-researcher James B. Maas. He offers tips to overcome sleep deprivation.

Released: 13-Mar-1997 12:00 AM EST
Reintroduced Red Wolves Face Little Opposition
Cornell University

Most residents of states surrounding the red wolf re-establishment zones in eastern North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park endorse wolf-recovery efforts and may spend as much as $170 million a year to visit the endangered animals, a Cornell University study has shown.

Released: 18-Mar-1997 12:00 AM EST
Cornell Study Proposes Manure Management Plant
Cornell University

The community around York, NY will hear a report on the feasibility of a central plant that would remove manure odor, recycle manure for value-added products, improve dairy waste management and perhaps provide energy back to the community. All this, and it would more than pay for itself, too, according to a Cornell professor of agricultural and biological engineering.


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