Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman saluted five staff members of Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library by presenting them with the 1999 Secretary's Honor Award in a ceremony in Washington recently.
Beth E. Clark, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Astronomy for the past three years, has been named by NASA to lead a research team for history's first asteroid sample return mission.
The Park Foundation has renewed its support of the Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management with a gift of nearly $7.5 million that extends support of the program through the Class of 2004.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 24. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
Elizabeth D. Moore of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., has been elected as a trustee fellow to a four-year term on the Cornell Board of Trustees, beginning July 1.
Just in time for summer's educational adventures, Cornell Plantations has published maps and descriptions of plant communities, the booklet details wild areas within walking and bicycling distance of Cornell's central campus.
Butterflies caught by Vladimir Nabokov, a manuscript scrawled by James Joyce and an assortment of brains, bird songs, fossils, fish and flowers are all part of the many object collections Cornell owns.
The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected three new trustee fellows and re-elected three at-large trustees, one trustee from the field of agriculture and two trustee fellows.
James Garbarino, Cornell professor of human development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center, has been elected the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor.
Six years ago, an economics journal published a seminal work that suggested that milk producers who pay "check-off" allocations may be better served spending that money on research, rather than on milk promotion and marketing.
