Jean McKelvey, the first faculty member of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first woman to serve as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, died Jan. 5 in Rochester, N.Y. She was 89.
Gustavo Aguirre, V.M.D., Ph.D., the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Ophthalmology, has been selected to receive the World Small Animal Veterinary Association's (WSAVA) International Award for Scientific Achievement for 1998.
A late-model lander and rover, equipped with a Cornell scientific instrument package called Athena, will roam and study a large corridor of the Martian highlands and ancient terrain.
Scratching the surface of wild tomatoes that bugs don't bother, Cornell scientists discovered the plants' chemical secret for repelling insect pests: a complex, waxy substance that commercially grown tomatoes have "forgotten" how to make.
A new manual, co-authored by Cornell social gerontologist Karl Pillemer, focuses on how to help nurse supervisors in long-term care facilities improve their leadership and supervisory skills.
Documents, scientific specimens, works of art and other materials previously available only to a few scholars will be made available worldwide through a new digital imaging program at Cornell. The Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, funded by $2 million in private grants.
The French Studies Program at Cornell is launching its first annual French Festival on campus from Nov. 5 through Nov. 23. Called La Quinzaine, which means fortnight, the festival will include two weeks of lectures, movies, round table discussions, films, recitations, culinary events and concerts.
Two of 60 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, announced last week by the White House, will go to Cornell faculty members: Linda K. Nozick, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and Patrick J. Stover, assistant professor of nutritional biochemistry.
