Barbara Hope Cooper, the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at Cornell University, died Aug. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center here. She was 45.
John Andrew "Andy" Noel Jr., Cornell University's associate director of athletics, has been named by the university to succeed Charles Moore as director of athletics and physical education. (August 10, 1999)
Does Mars have shifting sands? Over the past few months the camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor has provided tantalizing evidence of surface changes on the planet as sand dunes that cover large areas show signs of being moved by the Martian wind.
Reservations are being accepted for the Fourth Biannual Beef Producers Tour, Sept. 29--Oct. 2. The tour, presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension, will explore the beef industry of Canada's province of Ontario.
Only hungry babies and grown-up biologists worry whether there are enough mammary glands to go around. Naked mole-rat mothers don't worry. Even when a female produces more than two dozen pups.
Saturday, Aug. 14, at 1:30 p.m., Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) staff will be on hand at Titus Towers in downtown Ithaca to demonstrate a wheelchair-lift-equipped bus.
Retirees who volunteer or participate in community organizations enjoy significantly higher levels of psychological and physical well-being than other retirees and older workers.
Fourteen high school students from Cesar Chavez Charter High School for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and a few of their parents, will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to meet with a group of urban planning students and their professors at Cornell.
Seven Cornell graduate students are among 18 nationwide to receive 1999-2000 grants from the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research program. A project of the Pittsburgh-based Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation.
Another milestone in the quest for the perfect pizza: Cornell University researchers have discovered how to make fat-free or low-fat mozzarella cheese melt better. As a result the future promises pizza with low-fat cheese that not only tastes better but also looks as good as regular cheese.
They didn't sing the old Cornell football song "See them plunging down to the goal," but the school's Big Red team became champions of world robot "soccer" today (Aug. 4, 1999) when they beat a highly regarded German team 15-0 in the finals in Stockholm, Sweden.
