Harvard University professor of government Nancy Rosenblum, who researches U.S. political parties, will deliver Cornell University Law School's Robert S. Stevens Lecture Tuesday, March 26, at the Law School. Rosenblum's talk, "Party ID? Anti-Extremism, Anti-Partisanship, Anti-Politics," will take place in the Stein Mancuso Amphitheater of Myron Taylor Hall. It is free and open to the public. No tickets are needed to attend. (March 19, 2002)
Using nanoscale chemistry, researchers at Cornell University have developed a new class of hybrid materials that they describe as flexible ceramics. The new materials appear to have wide applications, from microelectronics to separating macromolecules, such as proteins. What is particularly striking, even to the researchers themselves, is that under the transmission electron microscope (TEM) the molecular structure of the new material -- known as a cubic bicontinuous structure -- conforms to century-old mathematical predictions. "We in polymer research are now finding structures that mathematicians theorized long ago should exist," says Ulrich Wiesner, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell. The structure of the new material appears so convoluted that it has been dubbed "the plumber's nightmare." (March 19, 2002)
Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin March 15 announced the appointment of Alison "Sunny" Power as dean of the Graduate School. Power has been interim dean since July, when Vice Provost Walter I. Cohen stepped down as dean. Power's appointment, which is for three years beginning July 1, 2002, was endorsed March 13 in a vote by the faculty of the Graduate School and was approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees March 15. (March 18, 2002)
At its seventh annual convocation, March 1, The Cornell Tradition awarded its first annual Cornell Tradition Community Recognition Award to Ithacan Mimi Melegrito. The Cornell Tradition is an alumni-endowed fellowship program at Cornell University that recognizes and rewards outstanding students dedicated to work, service and scholarship. This past fall, the Student Advisory Council of Cornell Tradition created the new award to recognize and honor an Ithaca area person who has demonstrated a strong commitment to community service and/or leadership. An awards committee solicited nominations from community agencies of candidates who exemplify the Cornell Tradition ideal of improving their community through dedication to service. In December, a selection committee composed of members from both the Cornell and Ithaca communities evaluated all of the nominations and selected Melegrito as the first recipient of the Cornell Tradition Community Recognition Award. (March 18, 2002)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees, at its regular meeting March 15, approved a tuition increase of $1,180 for undergraduate resident students in the New York state contract colleges for the academic year 2002-03.
NEW ORLEANS -- The era of waiting days for E. coli bacteria lab results soon will be at an end for food processors and health departments, thanks to a new type of biological sensor that works much like a home-pregnancy test in one format. At present, it takes technicians days to incubate and then implicate harmful and deadly bacteria in food poisonings, but the new sensor does its detective work in just minutes. (March 15, 2002)
Hunter R. Rawlings III announced today his intention to retire from the presidency on June 30, 2003, and to assume a full-time professorship thereafter in the university's Department of Classics.
The Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell has joined the prestigious National Textile Center Consortium, a group of universities focused on research to sharpen the global competitiveness of the domestic textile and apparel industry.
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell University, has been awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
A world-famous novel written two centuries ago by an 18-year-old Englishwoman will be required reading for all Cornell University incoming freshman and undergraduate transfer students in fall 2002. The newest selection for the New Student Reading Project seems the perfect choice. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein not only gave the world it's first characterization of the "mad scientist," inspiring scores of movies and books, points out Cornell Vice Provost Isaac Kramnick, but it raised concerns about the role of science in the modern world that seem more relevant than ever today. (March 13, 2002)
A new energy-conservation initiative at Cornell University is bringing about significant savings in the university's electric bill and is helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
