Harold Levy, chancellor of the New York City public schools and a Cornell University alumnus, will be on campus Feb. 13 to speak about the field of teaching and to recruit Cornell students for the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
Walter I. Cohen, vice provost and dean of the Cornell Graduate School, is stepping down after eight years as dean, Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced today. Cohen will step down as dean effective June 30, Martin said. He will remain as vice provost and will continue to serve on the Graduate School faculty as a professor of comparative literature.
Every person's odyssey to sexual awareness is different. But for a gay, lesbian, transgendered or bisexual teen-ager, disclosing his or her sexual preferences to parents is a particularly difficult milestone.
Cornell researchers Terrill Cool, professor of applied physics, and Frederick Gouldin, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, have been awarded research instrumentation grants from the Department of Defense/U.S. Army.
Clothing, particularly cotton, worn by both visitors and patients in hospitals are a leading source of transmission of spores of Aspergillus fungus, according to a study by two Cornell University textile experts.
Will this be the gang that could shoot straight? For the past year, engineers and computer programmers from Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, assisted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the imaging team at Cornell, have been figuring out how to slew a spacecraft precisely and aim its camera perfectly for the final act of its mission: alighting on an asteroid.
As NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, known as NEAR Shoemaker, closes in on asteroid 433 Eros, Cornell astronomers hope that surface details as small as a hand-size rock will be captured by the camera before the spacecraft bumps down on the boulder-strewn surface Feb. 12.
To give the Cornell community an opportunity to hear from a wide range of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from around the world, the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club, a student-run organization, is sponsoring the Entrepreneurship Symposium Feb. 16 at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
To strengthen the pool of minority executive talent available to corporate America, the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell has launched the "Pipeline to the 21st Century" initiative.
A multistate research group that includes Ramona Heck of Cornell University has been named winner of a prestigious award for its research on family businesses.
Despite a slight risk that HIV-positive mothers will transmit the AIDS virus to their infants via their breast milk, the risks of not breastfeeding are far greater for African babies from poor families.
Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories, will deliver a public lecture as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor during his visit to Cornell University Feb. 6-9. Scolnick's lecture.
