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When pouring liquor, people -- including professional bartenders -- unintentionally pour 20 to 30 percent more into short, squat glasses than into tall, thin ones, according to a new study at Cornell University.
(December 23, 2005)
Seventeen years after Pan American Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, a communication professorship at Cornell University will be named to honor Kenneth J. Bissett, a Cornell student who died in the bombing.
(December 20, 2005)
Captain Kathy Zoner is the new assistant director of Cornell University Police. Her promotion to assistant director and captain became effective Nov. 1, 2005.
(December 20, 2005)
With the arrival of volunteer searchers, the 2005-2006 Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project is now fully staffed and going full steam ahead.
(December 12, 2005)
Cornell University Police have an important message this holiday season: If you drink and drive, you lose.
(December 9, 2005)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $2 million grant to Cornell University, Colorado State University and the University of Nebraska to examine ways to control the deadly foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.
(December 6, 2005)
A new, instructive DVD, "Knowing the Score," for music performers, musical scholars and lovers of music, by Cornell Professor Malcolm Bilson, shows that there is far more information in classical music scores than meets the eye.
(December 6, 2005)
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Thursday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., New York City.
(December 5, 2005)
Plant breeding can boost the level of micronutrients in rice and improve the nutritional status of people who eat the grains by as much as 20 percent, according to Cornell University-led research reported in The Journal of Nutrition (December 2005).
(December 1, 2005)
Cornell University is the focal point of a new organization that will enable educational institutions in New York state and New England to connect to and support a new, high-bandwidth computer network.
(December 1, 2005)