Carrie E. Davenport, J.D. '05, Cornell Law School, is the recipient of the 2005 Edward L. Dubroff Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation for her paper 'A 'Brutal Need': How Application of Expedited Removal to Potential Refugees Violates the Fifth Amendment.'
Media artist and activist Brooke Singer will speak on 'Reshaping the Wireless Commons' in a public lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Cornell's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Jim Houck, the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and developer and principal investigator for the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 22 for his work on the spectrograph.
Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University, is a member of a global team of scientists that has been offered a $19.7 million grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. The team is working on devising and deploying novel genetic strategies to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever.
A gene enabling an insect virus to enter new cells was likely stolen from a host cell and adapted for the virus's use, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute report.
Carol Jean Buckley, a student services supervisor in Cornell University's Olin Library and member of the Cornell Savoyards, died at her home on June 24. She was 40.
The historic crescent that frames the eastern side of Schoellkopf Stadium at Cornell University will be closed until Aug. 31 for renovation work. People using the crescent to view fireworks displays will have to arrange for an alternative viewing site.
"I was frightened, and I was devastated," said Burt Neuborne '61, recalling the murder of one of his Cornell classmates, Michael Schwerner '61, and two other civil rights workers at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Several hundred people gathered in Duffield Hall's atrium on campus June 28 to thank President Jeffrey S. Lehman and his wife, Kathy Okun, for two years of service.
The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell University study. (June 27, 2005)
Revisiting a hallowed ritual for doctors, a committee within the Weill Cornell Medical College convened this spring to craft an updated Hippocratic Oath, one that responds to the state of modern medicine. Written in ancient Greece, the oath expresses principles still fundamental to the practice of medicine today. (June 22, 2005)
The 2005 North American James Joyce Conference held June 14-18 at Cornell University was "bloody inspirin' fine," as the American poet Ezra Pound wrote in 1918 to the Irish author after reading an early chapter of "Ulysses."
