Astronaut Edward (Ed) Lu, the veteran of three space missions who has logged 206 days in space, will visit the Cornell University campus Friday, June 11, to deliver the 2004 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture during the university's Reunion weekend.
NEW YORK -- Biomedical microscopic imaging deep inside living tissue with unprecedented clarity could become routine and widely available with the signing of technology-transfer and collaborative-research agreements today (May 28, 2004) by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, a leading maker of microscopy instrumentation, and by CCTEC, the technology, enterprise and commercialization arm of Cornell University. The license for two-photon laser microscopy (also known as multiphoton microscopy, and protected by patents dating back to July 23, 1991) has been transferred from the British firm Bio-Rad Laboratories to Germany's Carl Zeiss. Both Bio-Rad and Carl Zeiss have been manufacturing confocal laser microscopes incorporating multiphoton technology. (May 28, 2004)
Cornell University's Formula SAE race car team won its eighth FSAE World Championship May 23 in Pontiac, Mich., roaring past 130 universities from 13 countries. The Cornell engineering students scored 926 points out of a possible 1,000 in a series of events that ranged from design evaluation to competitive driving. In addition to capturing first place, the team brought home a variety of other awards for design and performance, including cash awards totaling $4,950 that will help finance next year's entry. (May 26, 2004)
ITHACA, N.Y. --Rural patients enrolled in Medicare health maintenance organizations (HMOs) must travel up to 34 percent farther -- eight miles, or almost 10 minutes longer -- to reach a hospital than do traditional Medicare patients. "Some patients must travel 90 minutes longer to go to a hospital in their network," says Liam O'Neill, assistant professor of policy analysis and management in Cornell University's College of Human Ecology. "Although 10 extra minutes may not seem significant, that's just the average time. Time and distance are not evenly distributed." (May 26, 2004)
NEW YORK -- The building of a pioneering life sciences research complex situated in the desert on the border between Jordan and Israel will begin this year, the Bridging the Rift Foundation has announced. The foundation is leading an international group of scientists and educators from Jordan, Israel, Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., in building a research and education center to gather, organize and model information about all living systems. (May 25, 2004)
Samuel C. Johnson, chairman emeritus of the Johnson Family of Companies, died May 22 at his home in Racine, Wisc., after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. He was the fourth generation of Johnson family members to head the 118-year-old family-owned group of businesses often referred to as Johnson Wax. Johnson, who earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1950, was a presidential councillor at Cornell -- the highest honor accorded to an alumnus -- a former trustee and leading benefactor. (May 25, 2004)
To save water, enter your ZIP code and click. The Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University has introduced a Lawn Watering Input Web site to make it easy for homeowners and groundskeepers to prevent lawns and grassy knolls from being saturated. (May 24, 2004)
Teenagers and young adults across the country and in this area are going to be surrounded with a strong safety campaign message: "Click It or Ticket; If you won't buckle up to save your life, then buckle up to save yourself a ticket," as Cornell University Police joins more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies and other campus and university law enforcement officers in a nationwide crackdown on seat belt law violators. The message to teens and young adults will be seen and heard in television and radio ads, across college campuses, over high school public address systems and through enforcement in locations where young people congregate -- such as schools and sporting events. (May 24, 2004)
Just as low-carbohydrate diets are trimming the American waistline, more judicious use of hydrocarbon-based fossil fuels would reduce U.S. energy consumption by 33 percent and save consumers $438 billion a year by 2014, according to an analysis by Cornell University ecologists. David Pimentel, Cornell professor of ecology, and 11 student ecologists found the most fat for trimming -- with the best potential for major energy savings -- in the transportation, residential heating and cooling, industrial and food-production sectors. Energy conservation and implementation of energy-efficient technologies also would allow significant savings in the production and use of chemicals, paper and lumber, household appliances, lighting and metals, the analysis showed. Their report on "U.S. Energy Conservation and Efficiency: Benefits and Costs" is in the latest issue of the journal Environment, Development, and Sustainability (Vol. #6, Issue 3-4). (May 24, 2004)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca Thursday, May 27, through Saturday, May 29. The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting Friday, May 28, at 7:30 a.m. in the Taylor A&B Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. The open session will include a discussion of the 2004-05 financial plan for the contract colleges. (May 24, 2004)
