John Shipley Rowlinson, the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, will be at Cornell University from April 27 through May 4 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
Gov. George E. Pataki has made a major commitment for the state to share in the purchase of the next generation of supercomputers and to provide increased operating support for the Cornell Theory Center. The commitment is part of a package Cornell has proposed to the National Science Foundation for continued designation as one of the national sites for supercomputing.
Digitize mail and paper files so employees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environment and provide alcohol swabs and cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free.
Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for facilities and campus services at Cornell, today (April 19) issued the following statement concerning several events involving a CU Transit bus on April 15: "The safety of the entire community is a primary objective of the CU Transit system.
College students from several East Coast states will visit Cornell the weekend of April 26- 28 for a conference celebrating Mexican-American art and culture.
That savory slice of juicy tomato reserved for the top of a freshly grilled burger or a gently tossed salad has been spared from nature's short list. Cornell plant pathologists have found the gene that resists the Cucumber Mosaic Virus, a plant disease that severely threatens tomatoes.
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.
