ITHACA, N.Y. -- Walter R. Lynn, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Center for the Environment (CfE). A specialist in water-resources planning and a Senior Fellow in the center, Lynn follows James P. Lassoie, director of CfE since 1993. Lynn will serve as director while a national search is conducted for his successor. The universitywide center coordinates interdisciplinary education, research and outreach in seeking new approaches to environmental challenges that are both economically and environmentally sustainable
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Karin Klapper couldn't be happier. The Cornell University senior has just learned that she will spend a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar. Klapper, a communication major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was one of 10 American and two Israelis awarded the prestigious scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to individuals, most of them graduating seniors, who have demonstrated leadership potential and provides them with full tuition and related costs for a year of study in the Hebrew University Visiting Graduate Program. The scholarship is named for Raoul Wallenberg, the Christian Swedish diplomat who risked his life to rescue Jews during World War II.
To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service and the National Agricultural Statistical Service.
Former congressmen Thomas Downey and Rod Chandler will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace in Washington, D.C. April 18. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies.
Researchers for Cornell's Lake Source Cooling project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Back in the old days -- say 1993 -- Cornell University agriculture students surfed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics System gopher site at the university's Albert R. Mann Library for the latest in crop and farm information. Well, that was then. Now, the USDA site has jumped onto the World Wide Web. It can be found at: . To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) about two years ago. These files included crop, livestock and agricultural economic statistics from the United States and other countries. Last year, the system was expanded to include reports from the ERS, NASS, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). These include weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts and estimates on crop production, dairy outlooks, wheat forecasts, and many others.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Former congressmen Thomas Downey (D- N.Y.) and Rod Chandler (R-Wash.) will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace Thursday, April 18, in Washington, D.C. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies, will begin at 8 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., N.W. In addition to the former congressmen, Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, will offer remarks.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Researchers for Cornell University's Lake Source Cooling (LSC) project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Now through April 13, the LSC project team will perform a Cayuga Lake bottom contour and subbottom sediment structure survey. During the week of April 15, surveys also will begin along the proposed land pipeline route between 1000 East Shore Drive and the Cornell University campus.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University has been awarded a three-year $195,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will enhance the museum's educational mission and further strengthen collaborative efforts between the museum and Cornell's academic departments, as well as support student internships.
They got started way back in 1994, in the "pre-Netscape days," before the Internet took off as a commercial enterprise. It was then that Cornell students Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, armed with only a modem and a Macintosh computer in Krizelman's dorm room.
Cornell scientists have come up with a novel way to manipulate liquid crystal molecules so they self-assemble in a desired direction into a robust network, making them useful as a new material for a variety of applications in the computer, medical, automotive and aerospace industries.
