Cornell is forging ahead with its environmental programs in sustainable development. Indeed, projects from recycling to energy saving are now recognized as critical issues by the university's leadership and the campus is on the brink of emerging as a global leader in sustainability.
Researchers have learned how a common fish found along the West Coast can hum and hear outside sounds at the same time. The study marks the first time that scientists have found a direct line of communication between the part of a vertebrate's brain that controls the vocal muscle system and the part of the ear that hears sound.
A paper co-authored by Vithala Rao has won the 2005 Robert D. Buzzell Best Working Papers Award from the Marketing Science Institute (MSI). Rao is the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management and professor of marketing and quantitative methods at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Carrie E. Davenport, J.D. '05, Cornell Law School, is the recipient of the 2005 Edward L. Dubroff Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation for her paper 'A 'Brutal Need': How Application of Expedited Removal to Potential Refugees Violates the Fifth Amendment.'
Media artist and activist Brooke Singer will speak on 'Reshaping the Wireless Commons' in a public lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Cornell's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Jim Houck, the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and developer and principal investigator for the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 22 for his work on the spectrograph.
Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University, is a member of a global team of scientists that has been offered a $19.7 million grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. The team is working on devising and deploying novel genetic strategies to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever.
A gene enabling an insect virus to enter new cells was likely stolen from a host cell and adapted for the virus's use, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute report.
Carol Jean Buckley, a student services supervisor in Cornell University's Olin Library and member of the Cornell Savoyards, died at her home on June 24. She was 40.
The historic crescent that frames the eastern side of Schoellkopf Stadium at Cornell University will be closed until Aug. 31 for renovation work. People using the crescent to view fireworks displays will have to arrange for an alternative viewing site.
"I was frightened, and I was devastated," said Burt Neuborne '61, recalling the murder of one of his Cornell classmates, Michael Schwerner '61, and two other civil rights workers at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Several hundred people gathered in Duffield Hall's atrium on campus June 28 to thank President Jeffrey S. Lehman and his wife, Kathy Okun, for two years of service.