Workers in the burgeoning Internet/digital design industry jockey for survival in one of the fastest growing employment sectors in the United States. Confronted with rapid changes in "new media" markets and technology, these highly-skilled professionals face serious labor challenges, according to Susan Christopherson.
Whenever Cornellians and campus visitors confess they must have missed the fabled Cornell Plantations, planners of the newly revised "Cornell Plantations Path Guide" politely disagree.
While Andrew Dickson White's role in helping to found Cornell has been rightfully celebrated, his prowess as a book collector has gotten short shrift, say Mark G. Dimunation, Cornell's curator of rare books, and Elaine D. Engst, university archivist.
Cornell scientists will study the dynamics and composition of the ionosphere using research instruments aboard one of a series of rockets, which will be launched from Puerto Rico in February 1998, as part of a scientific campaign known as Coqui II.
Steven Squyres, science team leader for the Mars rover mission and Cornell professor of astronomy, announced the powerful evidence found in recent days that Mars once had a watery environment.
Cornell will enhance its graduate programs by offering 80 new fellowships, primarily in the sciences, to bring its total number of fellowships in these areas to 100 in the 1998-99 academic year, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Oct. 1).
In a recent series of studies, Cornell neurobiologists are showing why females of some avian species choose suitors with the most elaborate courtship songs: Fancy singers have more elaborate brain structures (to learn singing and other life skills), brains that the females hope their offspring will inherit.
A $20 million gift to Cornell from an alumnus will launch major new instructional and research initiatives in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art facilities in growing technologies for electronic and photonic devices, biotechnology and advanced materials processing.
The Cornell Board of Trustees on May 24 unanimously elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows and re-elected two at-large members and four fellows. Board members also welcomed two alumni-elected trustees, one faculty-elected trustee, one student-elected trustee and two trustees appointed by New York Gov. George Pataki.
A Cornell University research team has uncovered the mechanics of a critical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen that could have implications for the future of energy production.