The Cornell University Department of Environmental Health and Safety is seeking assistance from the community in identifying the owner of a black, mixed-breed dog that was tied with a red leash to a bicycle rack outside the entrance of the new Mann Library building between 3-4 p.m. last Thursday, March 27. The dog bit a student, who may have to undergo a series of rabies "shots" if the dog can not be shown to be rabies-free. Anyone with information about the dog should contact Cornell Police at 257-1111. Thank you for publishing this important notice. (April 3, 2003)
Grant proposals from local organizations and agencies for the 2003 Robert S. Smith Award are due by April 14. Awards of up to $3,500 will be given to programs employing Cornell University students in community development projects. Last year, five local organizations shared awards totaling $13,500. (April 2, 2003)
ITHACA, N.Y. ---- Carlos Castillo-Chavez, professor of biomathematics and director of the Cornell University Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI), has been named the 2003 Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholar by the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Castillo-Chavez is spending this year at CNLS supervising seven MTBI alumni, most of them American Latino Ph.D.s and graduate students, in a program of diversified research. The research projects include influenza and dengue dynamics, homeland security and the study of epidemics on networks. Five of his collaborators are recipients of Cornell-Sloan fellowships in the mathematical and statistical sciences, a program that Castillo-Chavez founded in 1997 and now directs. (April 2, 2003)
Cornell University Police and Ithaca Police are investigating the death of a Cornell University graduate student. The student, a 25-year-old male, collapsed in a laboratory on campus at approximately 10 p.m. March 31. He was taken to Cayuga Medical Center, where he died this morning (April 1). (April 1, 2003)
A historic arts colony here that has been home to some of the most celebrated American artists will get a helping hand from Cornell preservation students, scholars and practitioners this Thursday through Sunday, April 3-6.
"Social Justice and Campus Activism" is the theme of Union Days, April 2-4, at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ives Hall. The events, which are free and open to the public, look at how labor and students intersect today on such issues as the war in Iraq, the anti-sweatshop campaign and organizing campus workers. (March 28, 2003)
Viburnum leaf beetles are chewing susceptible bushes into skeletal remains in central, western and northern New York state. The beetles, which face few predators, now appear to be taking aim at western New England and parts of Pennsylvania, and they are poised to move into the Hudson Valley, the New York City metropolitan area and Long Island.
NEW ORLEANS -- The fouling of ships' hulls, whether by barnacles and seaweed or by slime-creating bacteria, is a major problem for shipping worldwide, and particularly for navies. It has been estimated, for example, that fouling of hulls can create such turbulence as a ship moves through the water that fuel consumption is increased by as much as 30 percent. Traditionally major users of ships, like the U.S. Navy, have attempted to resist fouling by painting hulls with paints containing copper or triorganotin, a tin-based compound. But these paints are highly toxic and can leach into the water, killing marine life. That's why their use increasingly is being prohibited. But help is at hand: A research group at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., led by Christopher Ober, has developed two types of non-toxic paint, one hydrophilic and one hydrophobic, that effectively prevent fouling, whether by bacteria or barnacles. The paints act not only by minimizing adhesion by organisms but also by enabling hulls to become self-cleaning: As a ship moves through the water at 10 to 15 knots, the turbulence created removes the clinging barnacle or seaweed. (March 21, 2003)
Students from the top U.S. business schools will compete in the first-ever MBA Stock Pitch Competition this April 3 and 4 at Cornell. The competition for future stock analysts is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. It takes place at the Johnson School's Parker Center for Investment Research in Sage Hall in the center of campus. The competition will provide a platform for students to showcase their stock picking and presentation skills, considered an important part of an analyst's job in the investment industry. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team, an award of $1,500. (March 27, 2003)
Three members of Cornell University's faculty, two from the Ithaca campus and one from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, have been named Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows. They are among 117 outstanding young researchers from 50 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada to receive awards of $40,000 over two years. The three fellows are Johannes Gehrke, assistant professor of computer science, and David Lin, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, both on the Ithaca campus, and Diana Murray, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the Computational Genomics Core Facility at Weill Cornell. (March 27, 2003)
Four research projects at Cornell University have been selected to receive a total of $1.1 million in Department of Defense (DoD) grants under the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program and the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The research project leaders are Kenneth Birman, professor of computer science; Lang Tong, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; Matthew Miller, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Stephen Pope, the Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering. (March 27, 2003)
Anne M. Fletcher, an award-winning health and medical journalist and Cornell alumna, will be speaking on campus in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall, March 31.
