One of the world's most endangered whales, the North Atlantic right whale, is on a path toward extinction due to collisions with ships and entanglements in fishing gear, according to Cornell whale expert Christopher Clark. A paper co-authored by Clark in the latest issue of the journal Science (July 22, 2005) urges emergency measures, such as reducing boat speeds, rerouting shipping lanes around the whales' migratory paths and modifying fishing techniques and gear.
New types of adversaries and rapidly changing technology are changing how wars are fought. Two Cornell faculty members have gathered perspectives from international experts to produce a scholarly look at changing wars, aging international laws and the need for new laws in a new book, "New Wars, New Laws? Applying the Laws of War in 21st Century Conflicts."
An asteroid's external features, when analyzed carefully, can say a lot about its interior. So it was while he was mapping the surface of the asteroid 433 Eros that Peter Thomas, a senior research associate in astronomy at Cornell, found a simple solution to an earlier puzzle about the asteroid's composition.
Kelvin Lee, associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, is the new director of Cornell's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Technologies. The institute promotes research, education and technology transfer to benefit the Life Sciences industries, including agriculture and medicine.
The Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Research Project's Summer Institute at Cornell shifts into high gear with a series of thematic symposia July 29-31 that feature presentations by outstanding scholars and university leaders. FMS is an academic think tank and research team composed of minority scholars and others from more than 25 campuses in the United States and abroad. All four events are free and open to the public.
Position papers from an international conference held at Cornell in the spring of 2004, "Inevitable Alliance? European-American Relations After the Iraq Invasion," have been revised and reintroduced as a book: "Partner of Rivals? European-American Relations After Iraq," co-edited by Matthew Evangelista of Cornell and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi of Catholic University in Milan.
In March 2005, Cornell scientists confirmed the fears of many Empire State public health officials, deer farmers, hunters and other stakeholders: Chronic wasting disease (CWD), an incurable and fatal condition in deer and elk, had spread to New York. On Aug. 13 in Syracuse, N.Y., experts from around the nation will address this problem at a special seminar: "Deer and Chronic Wasting Disease in New York State: A Workshop for Sportsmen, Farmers and Outdoor Writers."
David L. Funk has been appointed as the next director of the Program in Real Estate at Cornell University. He will assume his new duties Aug. 1. Funk was previously the director of the MBA Program at the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama.
India, which has cornered the world economy's virtual backroom, now will bring leading American science, engineering and computing faculty from Cornell and other top colleges to teach students at Amrita University and, thanks to EduSat and emerging distance-learning strategies, other Indian institutions of higher learning.
Until now, there has been no way to sterilize human tissue. The potential for a product that can do the job is one reason MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management made a savvy investment pick in NovaSterilis, a start-up biotechnology company in Lansing, N.Y.
Ithaca doesn't qualify for membership in the G8, but it has its own powerhouse group of eight. This cluster does not discuss aiding children in Africa, but rather, it seeks to educate every child and adult in Ithaca via hands-on learning.
Carol L. Anderson, professor emerita of human development at Cornell and president of LORAC Consulting, received the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences' (AAFCS) Distinguished Service Award, the association's highest honor.
