Ever since India implemented sweeping economic reforms in 1991, investors and journalists, as well as scholars and students, have been keeping a close watch on its progress. At the end of this month, Cornell will host a weekend workshop devoted to India's emerging economy and featuring some of the people who are most familiar with it.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The committee for the 1996 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is inviting proposals from community organizations and agencies. Applications are due by April 19, 1996. Established at Cornell University in 1994 through a grant of $100,000 by the Tompkins County Trust Co., the award is named for the bank's former board of directors chairman, who is the W.I. Myers Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Finance at Cornell.
Ruth Chinitz Uris, a Presidential Councillor and longtime benefactor of Cornell, died March 19 at her home in New York City. Through her husband, the late philanthropist and builder Harold D. Uris (Cornell Class of 1925), Ruth Uris became an active and generous supporter of Cornell and its Medical College.
Researchers found that even a small increase in the number of women who have passed through that door to a managerial position dramatically increases other women's chances of being hired or promoted into that position. The result: a Catch-22 situation with important implications for the movement of women into management, as well as for the national affirmative action debate.
Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. (March 20, 1996)
The brutal cold of early February cancelled out unusually warm temperatures late in the month, making the temperatures close to normal in the Northeast, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. "As was the case in January, these temperature extremes cancelled each other out, producing a monthly average temperature that was just 0.4 degrees warmer than normal," said Keith Eggleston.
It may be that the notorious "glass ceiling" is actually a glass door, but one that women can open only after other women have already done so, says new research by Professor Heather A. Haveman at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Architecture Emeritus, taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1990. He will speak April 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The Festschrift, an academic tribute reserved for noted faculty, will attract scholars and practitioners from across the United States and Great Britain and feature four major addresses, a panel discussion and eight papers delivered by Rowe's former students and colleagues. Many of the activities will examine the teaching of architecture education and urban design, issues of importance to Rowe.
Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has named George Casella, professor of biometrics, Dennis Gonsalves, professor of plant pathology; and Maureen Hanson, professor of biological sciences, as the newest Liberty Hyde Bailey Professors. Liberty Hyde Bailey was among the first of the truly supreme professors at Cornell.
A white-tailed deer on a ledge of a gorge on the Cornell campus should be left alone to find its way out because a rescue attempt would be too risky -- for both humans and the animal, Cornell and state conservation officials say.
The student-run Cornell Program Board is presenting "An Evening with Bill Maher" at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. Tickets for Bill Maher's Bailey Hall show are $5 for students; $7 for the general public; and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office.
Training for Wall Street used to mean an MBA degree in finance and a smattering of computer courses. Not anymore. At Cornell, finance and engineering students are putting financial models and applications to the test on IBM's largest supercomputer, the 512-node Scalable RS/6000 POWERparallel Systems at the Cornell Theory Center.
