Filters
Topics
Campus & Community
Colleges & Schools

Discovery of water would make proposed lunar base possible, but recovery will be hard, Cornell astronomer tells House committee

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The discovery of accessible deposits of water on the moon would 'profoundly' affect the economics and viability of a lunar base, Cornell University astronomer Donald Campbell told a House of Representatives subcommittee today, April 1.

National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali will give a free show, April 12, at Cornell's Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room

Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali will be the featured artist for the Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series Monday, April 12, at Cornell University. His performance is free and open to the public. A noted poet, playwright and former sixth-grade teacher who has appeared in two seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," Mali will bring his humorous, provocative, full-body poetry assault to the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room beginning at 7:30 p.m. (April 1, 2004)

Cornell's Per Pinstrup-Andersen named top science adviser to CGIAR, world's largest publicly funded food research group

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University's H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been named chairman of the Science Council for CGIAR, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the world's largest publicly funded agricultural research organization.

Former U.S. ambassador to Korea will give Bartels Lecture at Cornell, April 12

Donald P. Gregg, U.S. ambassador to Korea (1989-93) during the George H.W. Bush administration and chairman of the Korea Society, will deliver the 2004 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell.

New marketing chair in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program named for John Dyson, creator of 'I Love NY' tourism campaign

Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.

Cornell to present nanofabricated etching -- including tiniest full-color U.S. flag ever put on silicon chip -- to White House on March 30

In a salute to nanotechnology, Cornell researchers have etched the world's smallest, full-color American flag on a silicon chip.

For first time, genome of water-contaminating parasite, cryptosporidium, is sequenced

New York, NY (March 26, 2004) -- For the first time a team of researchers -- led by the University of Minnesota and Weill Cornell Medical College -- has determined the complete genome sequence of Cryptosporidium, a common diarrhea-causing parasite that can lurk in drinking water. The finding has been published in the March 25 issue of the electronic journal Science Express, to be followed by publication in April in the print version of Science."Cryptosporidiosis is a hard-to-treat condition, largely because we lack a basic understanding of the genetic make-up of the organism," said Dr. Mitchell Abrahamsen, principal investigator, faculty of the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Genomics Center, where the genome sequencing was carried out.

Weill Cornell researchers solve 30-year puzzle of nerve cell function

New York, NY (March 26, 2004) -- Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have shed light on the function of the synapse -- the gap between nerve cells where information is passed from one cell to the next -- and solved a 30-year puzzle on how exactly nerve cells transmit signals.The finding may one day help determine what goes wrong in ailments like Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy, said Dr. Timothy Ryan, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.

Cornell hosts 2004 MBA Stock Pitch Challenge, April 1-2

Students from 11 top-tier U.S. business schools will compete in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge next Thursday and Friday, April 1 and 2, at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The competition will showcase the stock picking and presentation skills of MBA students who hope to be hired as stock analysts after they graduate. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team an award of $1,500. (March 26, 2004)

Author Ekwueme Michael Thelwell will give a public reading from his book co-written with the late Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), April 1

Scholar, activist and author Ekwueme Michael Thelwell will read from his latest book, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (Scribner, 2003), Thursday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road. The reading, free and open to the public, is part of the Africana center's Black Authors/New Books Series, Spring 2004. A book-signing and reception will follow the event. (March 26, 2004)

Middle East expert Shibley Telhami to give Olin Lecture 'America in Iraq and the Middle East'

Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland-College Park, will deliver the 2004 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. The title of Telhami's talk, "The Stakes: America in Iraq and the Middle East," is similar to the title of his most-recent book, The Stakes: America in the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003). (March 26, 2004)

Volunteer Night at Cornell Plantations, March 31, offers range of opportunities in 2004

Cornell Plantations is offering an information night and season kickoff for new and current volunteers on Wednesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the Lewis Education Center classroom at One Plantations Road in Ithaca.