Jim Roberts, a 1971 Cornell graduate and a third-generation Cornellian with 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, has been named editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine.
In this shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, pre-cooked world, Cornell University is striving to keep a strong agricultural connection active in the minds of 21st century children. The university's Agriculture in the Classroom program has developed the New York "Kids Growing Foods" school-garden program, and this spring grants are being awarded to 34 elementary schools in the state to establish or maintain these gardens.
Out of about 1,200 international contestants, the Cornell University Web ProductionGroup of Media and Technology Services came in first place in a contest sponsored by Sylloge.com for designing the best "low-fat" web site.
The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.
David W. Butler, who has served as associate dean of executive education at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration since 1993, has been nominated by President Hunter Rawlings to become the school's next dean, Rawlings announced on May 4, 2000.
New York's other World Series team, the Sapsuckers from the Laboratory of Ornithology, are scanning the skies of the Garden State in hopes that 2000 will be the year they finally take top honors in the World Series of Birding.
"Living Nightmares: Facing the Growing Threat of Biological Terrorism" will be the subject of a talk to be given on the Cornell campus May 3 by Steven M. Block, professor of biological sciences and of applied physics at Stanford University.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced on April 27 that he will submit to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees his nomination of Susan A. Henry, dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library $865,845 for the preservation of books, family farm memoirs, land transactions and other published materials that depict the history of American agricultural and rural life.
