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Cornell issues statement on campus transportation

Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for facilities and campus services at Cornell, today (April 19) issued the following statement concerning several events involving a CU Transit bus on April 15: "The safety of the entire community is a primary objective of the CU Transit system.

Any way you slice it, Cornell researchers find way to genetically engineer disease resistance into tomato plants

That savory slice of juicy tomato reserved for the top of a freshly grilled burger or a gently tossed salad has been spared from nature's short list. Cornell plant pathologists have found the gene that resists the Cucumber Mosaic Virus, a plant disease that severely threatens tomatoes.

Biological methods may be more effective than machines at controlling weeds, Cornell scientist says

Scientists and engineers have waged a long war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak, but environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer.

Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management to award Park Fellowships

Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997.

PeopleSoft CEO named 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year by Cornell

David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year.

Bosnian education official is at Cornell this month

Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.

Biological methods may be more effective than machines at controlling weeds, Cornell scientist says

For most of the last 30 years, scientists and engineers have waged a war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak. But, environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer, according to a Cornell scientist.

March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year

March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.

While educating students and faculty, he gathers information for rebuilding Tuzla

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate. "This was a real human problem as well as a moral problem, deciding whether or not children should go to school," he recently told students in a European history class at Cornell University. Though the United Nations had identified Tuzla as one of six "safe areas" in Bosnia, he said, it was shelled regularly by Serbian forces -- who often targeted schools.

PeopleSoft CEO named 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year by Cornell

ITHACA, N.Y. -- David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell University's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year. Duffield's honor is a highlight of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Celebration '96, which will be held April 25 and 26 on the Cornell campus. Duffield, who earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell in 1963 and 1964, respectively, will be the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel. Duffield will give a public lecture April 26 at 2 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall.

Thirty MBA students will receive full-tuition fellowships in the name of the late Roy H. Park

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997. The fellowships are named for the late Roy H. Park. Funding will be provided by the Park Foundation. Alan Merten, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School, said the establishment of the Park Fellowships will enable the school to attract the best students. "The Park Fellowships help propel the school into the next century by enabling us to compete aggressively for the best students and thus meet the demands of the corporate community," he said.

Council co-chaired by Cornell's Frank H.T. Rhodes issues report on U.S. research-and-development efforts

Unless new partnerships and less partisanship occur, America's status as the world leader of technological innovation is seriously threatened, warned authors of a report released by the Council on Competitiveness during a press conference in Washington, D.C.