Some veterinary students around the world stand out as special, possibly destined for a leadership position in the veterinary or biomedical sciences. These students are not only at the top of their class but show other exceptional qualities that set them apart.
Two investment rating services have given Cornell University's bonds high ratings, indicating they consider the university to be in good financial health. Standard & Poor's Corp. recently announced it had assigned its AA rating on the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York's $132 million revenue bonds series 1996, issued for Cornell. At the same time, Moody's Investors Service issued a Aa rating on the bond series.
Plant biologists have long held the view that photosynthesis -- the process by which cells in green plants convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy and use carbon dioxide to produce sugars -- needs two intermediate light-dependent reactions for successful energy conversion: Photosystem II and Photosystem I.
Warm weather returned to the 12-state Northeast region during June. The monthly departure for the region -- 1.5 degrees above normal -- was the largest monthly departure for any month since last October, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Several dozen Cornell agricultural students -- from a variety of disciplines -- have banded together to start the Cornell Student Farm on two acres of Cornell's Ithaca orchards. These students will obtain hands-on experience, working alongside and passing their knowledge on to children from the Southside Community Center of Ithaca.
A major resource center at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) containing millions of documents related to organized labor, industrial relations and management thought has been renamed in honor of Theodore W. Kheel, the influential New York City lawyer, arbitrator, negotiator and mediator.
As The New York Times celebrates its 100th anniversary, displaying its famous pages at several Manhattan libraries and museums, it is worth remembering that if not for one man, those pages might never have included reviews of the Beatles.
Some of the hottest debates raging in America today hinge on the extent to which governments can, or should, regulate human relationships. Should states hold parents accountable for their children's crimes? Restrict no-fault divorces? Prohibit same-sex marriages? Addressing such questions, commentators often lament the loss of propriety that prevailed early in this century, when more families were intact, more morals adhered to.
Scientists led by a Cornell chemist have determined the structure of a key protein that binds to a powerful immunosuppressive agent, opening the door to improved cancer treatments and human gene therapy.
Locksley Edmondson, Cornell University professor of political science and the recent director of the university's Africana Studies and Research Center, has been elected president of the Caribbean Studies Association, the world's leading scholarly organization on the Caribbean, with more than 1,000 members. He began his one-year term as president July 1.
James E. Turner, the founding director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center, was reappointed to the post for a five-year term by the provost, effective July 1. A professor of Africana Studies whose first stint as director lasted 17 years, Turner is a political sociologist specializing in African-American social movements and is a leading expert on Malcolm X.
Despite Ezra Cornell's decree that he would "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," instruction in hotel management at Cornell University almost didn't happen. In the early 1900s, Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman rejected the idea that Cornell should provide hotel management training as "absolutely out of the question."
