Scientists and engineers have waged a long war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak, but environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer.
Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997.
David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.
March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
David J. Gibson has been named editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine. Gibson's appointment was made by the Cornell Magazine Committee of the Cornell Alumni Federation, which owns the publication.
Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium.
Some pundits are predicting that Ralph Nader could be President Bill Clinton's nemesis come November. Members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities can make that judgment for themselves on Tuesday, April 23, at 8 p.m., when the consumer advocate, lawyer and presidential hopeful gives a lecture in Cornell's Bailey Hall.
This is one student takeover that administrators don't mind. Students in the Cornell School of Hotel Administration will be given the keys to Cornell's Statler Hotel this weekend to operate the 150-room property on their own from April 19-21.
