Heinz Isler (pronounced "ezler"), the noted Swiss structural engineer and designer, will present a talk at Cornell University, Monday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m. at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. The talk is free and is open to the public. Isler is considered to be among the foremost structural artists working today. His talk, which is the Felix Candela Memorial Lecture, will concern Isler's thin-shell roof structures -- self-supporting concrete domes -- of which he has designed more than 1,000 in the past two decades, more than any other engineer. His structures, most of them in Switzerland, have been described as "harmonious, natural and inspiring." (March 6, 2002)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has approved a proposal from a task force of students, faculty and staff to strengthen the university's policy against hazing.
On March 10, Floyd Cardoz, executive chef of New York City's Tabla restaurant, will launch the spring 2002 Guest Chefs Series with a sumptuous four-course dinner at the Statler Hotel on Cornell University's campus. The event, featuring Cardoz's unique Indian-inspired international cuisine, is open to the public. Tabla earned a three-star review in The New York Times in 1999, soon after it opened, and Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl wrote: "For me it was love at first bite." (March 6, 2002)
Cornell University Police will operate a sobriety checkpoint on campus this weekend after one of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) playoff hockey games. Drivers can find out in advance where the checkpoint will be by going to the department's web site after noon Friday, March 8, and checking out the section called "Drink and drive. You lose." (March 6, 2002)
A strategic conference of business executives and academic researchers in travel, tourism and hospitality will convene in New York City Thursday, March 7.
Women in Manhattan and Ithaca, ages 35 to 54, can earn $20 by volunteering to be measured by Cornell University apparel researchers who are using a state-of-the-art 3-D body scanner to measure more than 300,000 body data points.
New York, NY (March 1, 2002) -- A new clinical trial testing an HIV vaccine together with low daily doses of interleukin 2 (IL2) -- led by Dr. Kendall Smith, Chief of Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College -- is designed to determine whether it is possible to achieve control of HIV by enhancing the body's immunity to the virus. Dr. Smith's team has previously shown that low daily doses of the T cell growth factor IL2 can result in accelerated improvement of the immune system when given to individuals with chronic HIV infection. Now, the team is testing whether it is possible to generate protective immunity to HIV, so that antiviral drugs will no longer be necessary.Dr. Smith and his research team discovered the IL2 molecule and IL2 receptors over 20 years ago, and since then, the team has pioneered studies that have determined how IL2 functions as a growth factor for T lymphocytes and Natural Killer (NK) cells, the principal cells known to fight viral infections.
ITHACA, N.Y. --Many coastal and large urban areas in the Northeast are facing their worst precipitation deficits (July through February) since official climatological record-keeping began more than a century ago, say experts at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. The severest drought faces those communities experiencing at least a 15-inch precipitation deficit since last July, including most of New Jersey, southeastern New York state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the climate center says. (March 1, 2002)
Former NASA astronaut Tom Jones will speak at Cornell University March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The talk is free and is open to the public. The subject of the talk, sponsored by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour) and the New York State Space Grant Consortium, will be "The International Space Station: Stepping Stone or Block?" (March 1, 2002)
A major gift from a Cornell University Law School alumnus and his wife has endowed a center for international and comparative law studies that now has its first director. Approved by Cornell's Board of Trustees last October, the Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies was created through an endowment gift from Jack Clarke, L.L.B. '52, and his wife, Dorothea, that supports a directorship, several professorships and a range of international and comparative law initiatives at the Law School. (March 1, 2002)
The administration of Cornell has expressed its gratitude to the government of the Dominican Republic for the Feb. 27 rescue of two Cornell research ecologists who were stranded for five days in the Armando Bermudez National Park.
In 1917 three young men graduated from Indiana University with the word "Colored" emblazoned across their academic transcripts. One of them, Elbert Frank Cox, would go on to enter Cornell and become the first black man in history to receive a doctorate in pure mathematics. (Feb. 28, 2002)
