Scientists and engineers have waged a long war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak, but environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer.
Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997.
David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.
For most of the last 30 years, scientists and engineers have waged a war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak. But, environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer, according to a Cornell scientist.
March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate. "This was a real human problem as well as a moral problem, deciding whether or not children should go to school," he recently told students in a European history class at Cornell University. Though the United Nations had identified Tuzla as one of six "safe areas" in Bosnia, he said, it was shelled regularly by Serbian forces -- who often targeted schools.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell University's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year. Duffield's honor is a highlight of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Celebration '96, which will be held April 25 and 26 on the Cornell campus. Duffield, who earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell in 1963 and 1964, respectively, will be the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel. Duffield will give a public lecture April 26 at 2 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997. The fellowships are named for the late Roy H. Park. Funding will be provided by the Park Foundation. Alan Merten, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School, said the establishment of the Park Fellowships will enable the school to attract the best students. "The Park Fellowships help propel the school into the next century by enabling us to compete aggressively for the best students and thus meet the demands of the corporate community," he said.
Unless new partnerships and less partisanship occur, America's status as the world leader of technological innovation is seriously threatened, warned authors of a report released by the Council on Competitiveness during a press conference in Washington, D.C.
David J. Gibson has been named editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine. Gibson's appointment was made by the Cornell Magazine Committee of the Cornell Alumni Federation, which owns the publication.
Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium.
