Cornell juniors receive Truman, Goldwater scholarships. Junior Elisabeth Becker, double major in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive a Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship, and Kevin Joon-Ming Huang, a junior in the College of Engineering, has won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months. The mission will be extended through September 2006.
Public single-sex schools, once thought out of step, are returning -- promoted by an unlikely coalition of progressive and conservative groups. Communities need to know whether these schools are constitutional -- as well as whether they are good for young people, says Cornell University Law Professor Gary Simson. (April 07, 2005)
If you are looking for the best hotel room deal and are confused by what is out there on the Internet, a new study done at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration points the way to the best prices and the most up-to-date information on available rooms. (April 6, 2005)
A discovery in yeast that has important implications for finding a cure for a devastating disease of nerve cell failures – called familial dysautonomia – has been made by Cornell researchers. They have found a gene that is a major player in determining the structural and functional asymmetry of cells – known in modern biological parlance as cell polarity.
The conference, Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion on the will bring together African-American, Asian, Latino and Native American alumni and faculty to promote interaction and to discuss, issues of concern to their communities.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed Cornell's management contract for the operation of Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest and most-sensitive single-dish radio/radar telescope.
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell University, has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra.
Five members of the Cornell University faculty, from the United States, Canada, Romania and Sweden, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. They are Colleen E. Clancy, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell; Brian Crane, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology; Erich Mueller, assistant professor of physics; Camil Muscalu, assistant professor of mathematics; and Anders Ryd, assistant professor of physics.
"Green" plastics developed in a Cornell University laboratory soon could become commercial products with the aid of a $300,000 grant from New York state. The mission of the funding agency, the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), is to encourage economic development in the state by supporting high-tech academic research that can form the basis for new businesses.
