A team of Cornell University graduate students has taken third place in the 2002-03 SiGe (Silicon Germanium) Design Challenge, sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC). The team of Daniel Kucharski, Drew Guckenberger and Jing-Hong Conan Zhan, graduate students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a prize of $10,000 for an optical fiber transceiver designed to operate at frequencies up to 10 gigabytes per second. The device combines on a single chip the jobs currently done by three chips in converting electrical signals to and from optical pulses in fiber-optic transmission. (September 10, 2003)
Good moos: Cornellia, the plastic cow that has been missing from atop the Cornell University Dairy Bar since Aug. 27, was found early this morning in a paddock at the large-animal facility at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine. "Cornellia was returned unharmed, except her red ribbon was missing. We replaced it with a yellow evidence ribbon," said Lt. David Nazer of the Cornell Police. He believes Cornellia was taken as a prank. (September 10, 2003)
It may soon be possible to produce a low cost, high-value, high-strength fiber from a biodegradable and renewable waste product for air filtration, water filtration and agricultural nanotechnology, report polymer scientists at Cornell.
Sheila C. Johnson, philanthropist and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), will give a public address on the Cornell University campus Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Statler Hotel Ballroom. Johnson's address is part of the Moses and Loulu Seltzer Lecture Series at Cornell and it is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the talk. Both events are sponsored by Cornell's university-wide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program. (September 9, 2003)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, Sept. 11. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 11:45 a.m. (September 8, 2003)
To memorialize the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, several events on the Cornell University campus, free and open to the community, are slated for Thursday, Sept. 11. A Sept. 11 commemoration at 12:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room will include remarks from: undergraduate student Nick Linder '05, a government and economics major and president of the Student Assembly; Gavin Hurley, a graduate student in operations research and industrial engineering and president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly; Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work; and Cynthia Farina, professor of law. The Sage Chapel choir will perform during the event. Following the commemoration, music will be played on the Cornell Chimes from McGraw Tower. (September 8, 2003)
Far above Cayuga's waters -- hundreds of miles, in fact -- NASA astronaut and Cornell University alumnus Ed Lu reached out today (Sept. 4) and spoke via shortwave radio directly to fellow Cornellians for 11 minutes. Lu was aboard the International Space Station some 240 miles above Earth as it passed over North America. It was the first time Cornell students had spoken to an astronaut in space. "This is really exciting, this is great and it all worked," said Chase Million, a Cornell junior from Hagerstown, Ind., who is president of the Cornell Amateur Radio Club. As a physics major, Million plans on a career in the space industry after he graduates. "Today was more than just a hands-on experience, we actually got to talk to a guy who is on the space station." (September 04, 2003)
A dedication and formal ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the renovation of White Hall, one of Cornell University's three original buildings, will be held Friday, Sept. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. on the university's Arts Quad in front of White Hall. The $12 million restoration project, completed in January 2003, was a top funding priority for Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. White Hall's renovated space, redesigned to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching, is now home to the Departments of Government and of Near Eastern Studies. (September 4, 2003)
Alice Fulton, the award-winning poet, writer and professor of English at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 10 presentation, "Let the Barbaric Flowers Live: Nature and Poetry."
It is not that Filipino farmers don't want to grow genetically engineered "golden rice." It's just that most have never heard of it. In the Philippine province of Nueva Ecija, most farmers don't know that golden rice exists, even though the crop is fortified with beta-carotene to alleviate vitamin A deficiency.
