Traffic and parking issues were at the top of the agenda for the first open forum on sustainability at Cornell on Nov. 8. The discussion, sponsored by the University Assembly, was the first of six planned summits to focus on creating a culture of sustainability throughout campus.
Cornell Theory Center has announced new, faster computing facilities and is inviting members of the Cornell research community to a "town hall meeting" to discuss new directions. (November 15, 2005)
The Cornell Theory Center has fired up its newest and fastest high-performance computer, called the Velocity-3 Cluster, or V3, capable of speeds up to 2.1 teraflops. (November 15, 2005)
Sex, drugs and alcohol. These are among the youth-oriented issues being discussed in Connecting with Kids workshops, an award-winning program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension. (November 15, 2005)
A new study by psychiatrists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine highlights the toll that anxiety and depressive disorders exact on workplace performance and profits, and suggests improved psychiatric evaluation as a cost-effective approach.
Cornell physicist Yuri Orlov has been named the recipient of the first Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical Society for his extensive work promoting human rights. (November 14, 2005)
With millions of orphans in Africa, more are becoming the heads of their own households at very tender ages. As such, they turn to other children for help three times more often than to other sources, finds Cornell doctoral candidate Mónica Ruiz-Casares, who studied child-headed households in Namibia. (November 14, 2005)
Raymond Knapp, musicologist at the University of California-Los Angeles, has been named the winner of the 2004-05 Nathan award for dramatic criticism. The $10,000 award, administered by the Cornell University Department of English, is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater. (November 14, 2005)
With pledge card glitches mended, the Cornell United Way Campaign surged into high gear with pledges-to-date totaling $413,855 -- 66 percent of the 627,000 goal. (November 14, 2005)
New research is expanding what we know about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of infertility in men. A team from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City demonstrated the effectiveness of microsurgical sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
The National Institutes of Health's new Neuroscience Information Framework will be designed by a consortium led by Weill Cornell Medical College, whose Dr. Daniel Gardner was awarded the prestigious competitive contract.
The Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Association recognized eight outstanding alumni and faculty at the 2005 Outstanding Alumni Awards Banquet on Nov. 4. (November 10, 2005)
