The Cornell Public Service Center has announced the first fellows in the new Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program. The program will enable four community leaders involved in economic- and community-development efforts to join the Cornell community.
Got game? The First Annual Cornell Dairy Open golf tournament is scheduled for Aug. 9, at Cornell University's Robert Trent Jones Golf Course on Warren Road.
Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell University agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.
Two researchers at Cornell University are predicting that high-temperature superconductivity could exist in a class of exotic materials containing silver and fluorine.
This week's (8/2/01) New England Journal of Medicine highlights a significant study on surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy. It proves, for the first time, in a randomized, controlled trial, that surgery rather than medication should be the mode of choice for temporal-lobe epilepsy. Dr. Ted Schwartz, new Director of the Center of Epilepsy and Brain Tumor Surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center, is available for interviews. Contact him through Jonathan Weil, Public Affairs, 212-821-0560.
New York, NY (August 2001) -- Jay Edelberg, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular researcher and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been named a 2001-2004 Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Alliance for Aging Research. The prestigious honor includes an award of $450,000 to support his research into finding new approaches to reverse vascular changes in the aging heart.
The Cornell Board of Trustees elected Miguel Antonio Ferrer, president and chief executive officer of UBS PaineWebber Inc. of Puerto Rico, as a trustee fellow May 25.
In-service tax workshops to review estate and gift taxation reporting and management will be held in New York state in Liverpool, Batavia and Binghamton in late August.
Weed it and reap: In the academic equivalent of a major bowl game, teams from Cornell University and nine other schools will compete in the Northeastern Weed Science Society's 18th annual Collegiate Weed Contest on July 31, 2001, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
The final report by the Middle States reaccreditation team, issued in late June, was glowing in its praise for Cornell University as "a truly special place."
A 33-year-old mother of two from Yonkers, New York is the first patient in the U.S. to receive robotically-assisted atrial septal defect repair, without a chest incision of any kind. The operation was performed as part of a clinical trial sanctioned by the FDA at NewYork-Presbyterian's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on July 24, 2001.
Potentially damaging soybean aphids have been detected in several central and western counties of New York state, according to Cornell University entomologists.
