Sessions to help eligible contract college employees apply for the New York state early retirement incentive will be held throughout Oct. Deadline: 30 days before retiring, or Nov. 30 at the latest.
The annual open enrollment period for endowed health, dental and select benefits plans will be Nov. 1-30. News from NYS on contract college employees plans are pending. Benefair will be Nov. 10. (Oct. 6, 2010)
Graduate student Jade Woods Moore, 24, was killed in a two-vehicle accident Oct. 5 on Route 13, north of Ithaca. Her husband, Bill Moore, was injured in the collision and died Oct. 6 at Robert Packer Hospital.
One way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by the end of the century is by setting up fields of air-capture devices that absorb the gas, according to a Cornell paper. (Oct. 5, 2010)
Superconductivity and magnetism tend not to coexist, but theoretical physicists at Cornell have engineered a system in which these conflicting properties are believed to put aside their differences.
Cornell will test its Emergency Mass Notification systems beginning at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6. The test uses sirens, the public address system, and voice and text messaging. (Oct. 5, 2010)
An Oct. 1 panel discussion on energy security and sustainability was part of Cornell's celebration around the naming gift that created the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. (Oct. 4, 2010)
Donald Zilversmit, professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at Cornell and an expert on the relationship between diet and cardiovascular disease, died Sept. 16 at age 91. (Oct. 4, 2010)
The associate professor of biomedical engineering has been appointed vice president of the new International Society of Bionic Engineering. (Oct. 4, 2010)
Workers poured 200 yards of concrete continuously for more than 12 hours on Sept. 28 to form the dome that is a signature architectural feature of Paul Milstein Hall. (Oct. 4, 2010)
