Cornell's Gannett Health Center is consolidating its services, renovating its space, revising its fee structure and improving its student insurance plan this fall to accommodate changing health care patterns nationwide and to better serve its clients.
Cornell materials scientists have come up with a novel technique that could vastly improve the performance and yield of silicon microelectronic and optical devices, which are used in semiconductor integrated circuits that power everything from computers to telephones.
Associate Dean Stanley Bowman has been named acting dean of the college. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1973, Bowman will serve as dean until a new dean is appointed.
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell will honor six alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20.
Juris Hartmanis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at Cornell University, has been appointed assistant director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 12. The meeting will be held in Room A/B of the Cornell Club.
Cornell chemists have created the world's smallest wires and encased them in a plastic polymer, an accomplishment that could lead to a host of new electrical or optical uses at the nanometer scale.
