Do New Yorkers understand New York politics? Fuhgeddaboutit. More than 70 percent of New York state residents feel that Albany's politics are too complicated to understand, according to this year's 2004 New York State Empire Poll of state residents, conducted by the Survey Research Institute at Cornell University. (December 10, 2004)
Cornell University has announced that 19 of its undergraduate students will receive a scholarship for up to four years -- the 2004 Howard Milstein Scholarship in Arts and Sciences -- based on academic accomplishment and financial need. The annual scholarship, funded by a gift from Cornell alumnus Howard Milstein, was established in 2000 to enhance the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences' ability to attract and enroll some of the world's most intellectually able students. (December 9, 2004)
Wanted, dead or alive: the brown-marmorated stink bug. "We are asking homeowners in the Pacific Northwest to be on the lookout for these bugs, and if they think they have found any, to collect them.
Seven Cornell University academics have received national and international recognition for their work in scientific research. Several of the awards are among the most prestigious in their fields. Scholars who have received awards recently include Kevin Kornegay, electrical and computer engineering; Philip Liu and Jery Stedinger, civil and environmental engineering; Jerrold Meinwald, chemistry; Aaron Marcus, Weill Cornell Medical College; Fred W. McLafferty, chemistry and chemical biology; and Lang Tong, electrical and computer engineering. (December 3, 2004)
To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles through December.
Cornell graduate Michael Schwam-Baird '02 has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he will pursue a master's degree in economic and social history. Schwam-Baird is a native of Jacksonville, Fla.
GibbsITHACA, N.Y. -- Barbados native Damany Gibbs, a Cornell University 2003 engineering graduate, has won a 2005 Rhodes Scholarship, considered the world's leading academic scholarship, for two or three years of study at the…
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Faruk Logoglu, Turkey's ambassador to the United States, will deliver the opening address for a two-day forum on "European Turkey: Modernization, Secularism and Islam," on Friday, Dec. 3, at 5:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House at Cornell University. Logoglu's remarks will be followed by a concert of Turkish music and dance, performed by Cornell's Middle Eastern Ensemble and the dance group Chandani. On Saturday, Dec. 4, Kemal Gürüz, former president of Turkey's council of higher education, will deliver the forum's keynote address at 6 p.m. in the atrium at Sage Hall. Gürüz is currently a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. (November 24, 2004)
This week, Nov. 22-28, Cornell University Police joins police agencies across New York state in a "zero tolerance" wave of enforcement of state seat-belt laws. There will be checkpoints and saturation patrols aimed at ticketing drivers and front-seat passengers without seat belts and drivers who fail to properly restrain their child passengers. This Thanksgiving, the seat-belt enforcement push will continue to place a special emphasis on teens and young adults. These drivers, national statistics show, are the least likely to buckle up. Cornell Police continues to participate in these enforcement efforts because research shows that repeating waves of high-visibility enforcement saves lives. (November 23, 2004)
What's the best way to get a statistically reliable sample of people who are hard to identify, such as illegal-drug users in large cities, itinerant jazz musicians, aging Manhattan artists and semi-professional storytellers? Answer: Use a new "pyramid" sampling method developed by a Cornell University sociologist. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use the method to recruit injection drug users (IDUs) and measure their HIV-risk behavior in the 25 U.S. cities with the largest number of AIDS cases. (November 19, 2004)
