The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, Sept. 11. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 11:45 a.m. (September 8, 2003)
To memorialize the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, several events on the Cornell University campus, free and open to the community, are slated for Thursday, Sept. 11. A Sept. 11 commemoration at 12:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room will include remarks from: undergraduate student Nick Linder '05, a government and economics major and president of the Student Assembly; Gavin Hurley, a graduate student in operations research and industrial engineering and president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly; Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work; and Cynthia Farina, professor of law. The Sage Chapel choir will perform during the event. Following the commemoration, music will be played on the Cornell Chimes from McGraw Tower. (September 8, 2003)
Far above Cayuga's waters -- hundreds of miles, in fact -- NASA astronaut and Cornell University alumnus Ed Lu reached out today (Sept. 4) and spoke via shortwave radio directly to fellow Cornellians for 11 minutes. Lu was aboard the International Space Station some 240 miles above Earth as it passed over North America. It was the first time Cornell students had spoken to an astronaut in space. "This is really exciting, this is great and it all worked," said Chase Million, a Cornell junior from Hagerstown, Ind., who is president of the Cornell Amateur Radio Club. As a physics major, Million plans on a career in the space industry after he graduates. "Today was more than just a hands-on experience, we actually got to talk to a guy who is on the space station." (September 04, 2003)
A dedication and formal ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the renovation of White Hall, one of Cornell University's three original buildings, will be held Friday, Sept. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. on the university's Arts Quad in front of White Hall. The $12 million restoration project, completed in January 2003, was a top funding priority for Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. White Hall's renovated space, redesigned to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching, is now home to the Departments of Government and of Near Eastern Studies. (September 4, 2003)
Alice Fulton, the award-winning poet, writer and professor of English at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 10 presentation, "Let the Barbaric Flowers Live: Nature and Poetry."
It is not that Filipino farmers don't want to grow genetically engineered "golden rice." It's just that most have never heard of it. In the Philippine province of Nueva Ecija, most farmers don't know that golden rice exists, even though the crop is fortified with beta-carotene to alleviate vitamin A deficiency.
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced today (Aug. 29) that he has appointed Barbara L. Krause to the position of senior advisor to the president, effective Sept. 1. In that position she will advise the president on a wide variety of issues related to the university and will accept special assignments from the president as needed. (August 29, 2003)
"Seeds: Super Storehouse to Sensational Sprout" is the theme for the 2003 Judy's Day festival Sunday, Sept. 21, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Cornell Plantations' F.R. Newman Arboretum on the Cornell University campus. Billed as a day for kids of all ages, the annual hands-on educational event is free and will be held, rain or shine, under tents at the arboretum. Newman Arboretum is located between Cornell's central campus and state Route 366, with the vehicle entrance and parking off of Forest Home Drive. (August 28, 2003)
A recent survey of New York state residents on the use of biotechnology in food and agriculture finds the public almost evenly split between those who oppose its use, those who favor it and those who are undecided. The findings were among the results of a special-topics survey on biotechnology as part of the 2003 Empire State Poll, an ongoing poll of New Yorkers' views conducted by the Survey Research Institute at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. (August 28, 2003)
Polley Ann McClure, Cornell vice president for information technologies, has been named this year's recipient of the EDUCAUSE Award for Excellence in Leadership.
