Cornell's vice provost for life sciences and professor of plant breeding and plant biology applies plant agriculture to human well-being while also overseeing the New Life Sciences Initiative.
Companies use very different ways to determine and carry out their human resources priorities, according to the third Human Resources Roundtable at the School of Hotel Administration, Sept. 28-29.
Kathleen Foley has received a 2006 Trustees' Merit Citation from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Misty Urban won a first prize for fiction in the 21st annual New Letters Awards for Writers contest.
A new program connected to Cornell's Shoals Marine Laboratory aims to introduce freshmen from all walks of life, but particularly underrepresented youth who tend to hail from urban areas, to studying marine science.
Alan S. Paau of the University of California-San Diego has been named vice provost for technology transfer and economic development at Cornell and executive director of the Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise and Commercialization.
The university has established an institutionwide hotline service, via an agreement with EthicsPoint Inc., that gives faculty, staff and students a way to anonymously report irregularities and other concerns.
The cherry processing industry now has two new varieties to work with, thanks to recent releases by Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and International Plant Management Inc.
Cornell's emphasis on outreach to a wide range of farmers is now bringing science-based expertise to one of New York's most traditional farm communities: Amish families in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.
Dan Luo, whose work in nucleic acid engineering is changing the way scientists look at DNA, has garnered a prestigious 2006 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation.
Following the Sept. 23 Big Red football game against Yale, Big Red Marching Band first trumpet Dave Samuels '07 took a much-needed break on the sidewalk by Barton Hall.
Provost Biddy Martin invites all faculty, staff and students to join the Cornell Humanities Book Art Project by lending books they have authored for an art installation by Professor Buzz Spector.
