Cornell graduate Michael Schwam-Baird '02 has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he will pursue a master's degree in economic and social history. Schwam-Baird is a native of Jacksonville, Fla.
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Barbados native Damany Gibbs, a Cornell University 2003 engineering graduate, has won a 2005 Rhodes Scholarship, considered the world's leading academic scholarship, for two or three years of study at the…
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Faruk Logoglu, Turkey's ambassador to the United States, will deliver the opening address for a two-day forum on "European Turkey: Modernization, Secularism and Islam," on Friday, Dec. 3, at 5:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House at Cornell University. Logoglu's remarks will be followed by a concert of Turkish music and dance, performed by Cornell's Middle Eastern Ensemble and the dance group Chandani. On Saturday, Dec. 4, Kemal Gürüz, former president of Turkey's council of higher education, will deliver the forum's keynote address at 6 p.m. in the atrium at Sage Hall. Gürüz is currently a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. (November 24, 2004)
This week, Nov. 22-28, Cornell University Police joins police agencies across New York state in a "zero tolerance" wave of enforcement of state seat-belt laws. There will be checkpoints and saturation patrols aimed at ticketing drivers and front-seat passengers without seat belts and drivers who fail to properly restrain their child passengers. This Thanksgiving, the seat-belt enforcement push will continue to place a special emphasis on teens and young adults. These drivers, national statistics show, are the least likely to buckle up. Cornell Police continues to participate in these enforcement efforts because research shows that repeating waves of high-visibility enforcement saves lives. (November 23, 2004)
What's the best way to get a statistically reliable sample of people who are hard to identify, such as illegal-drug users in large cities, itinerant jazz musicians, aging Manhattan artists and semi-professional storytellers? Answer: Use a new "pyramid" sampling method developed by a Cornell University sociologist. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use the method to recruit injection drug users (IDUs) and measure their HIV-risk behavior in the 25 U.S. cities with the largest number of AIDS cases. (November 19, 2004)
The Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies program at Cornell University will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a two-day conference Nov. 19 and 20. Titled "The Queer's English," the conference features a slate of Cornell graduate alumni working in the field of queer studies. The two-day event opens with remarks from Provost Biddy Martin on Friday, Nov. 19, at 4:45 p.m. in the Cornell English Department Lounge, Room 258 of Goldwin Smith Hall. Martin's comments will be followed by two talks and a reception. The conference reconvenes Saturday at 10 a.m. in the lounge and concludes with a roundtable discussion at 4 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. For a complete list of speakers and the title of their talks, see . (November 18, 2004)
Stephen J. Hadley, who received a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University in 1969, has been appointed national security adviser by President George W. Bush.
Save a place at the table for Frosty the Snowman if you live in Boonville, N.Y., or Caribou, Maine, this Thanksgiving. Otherwise, most of the Northeast should be generally snow-free during the holiday, according to Keith Eggleston.
A group of chemicals in apples could protect the brain from the type of damage that triggers such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinsonism, according to two new studies from Cornell University food scientists. The studies show that the chemical quercetin, a so-called phytonutrient, appears to be largely responsible for protecting rat brain cells when assaulted by oxidative stress in laboratory tests. (November 17, 2004)
NEW YORK (November 16, 2004) -- Two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association, led by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers, are clearing up the mystery of why some hypertensive patients continue to be at high risk for heart attack and stroke, even after drug therapy has reduced their blood pressure to safer levels.Findings from both echocardiogram and electrocardiogram (ECG) suggest that anti-hypertensive drugs that aggressively shrink enlarged heart muscle bring added benefits to patients, lowering their risk for dangerous cardiovascular events.
NEW YORK (November 16, 2004) -- Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College believe they've uncovered a molecular switch that naturally suppresses the body's immune response in situations where it's not needed.Drugs that mimic or oppose this mechanism might someday fight autoimmune disorders like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, or protect immune cells from enemies like HIV.
