Diversity is more than skin color, language and family differences. To 3- and 4-year-olds, it can be as simple as wearing glasses, knowing how to tie shoes, eat with chopsticks or simply having a different point of view.
The Undergraduate Admissions Office at Cornell University regrets the very serious error that occurred Wednesday morning when an email that was intended only for admitted early decision students was sent to a wider pool of applicants. Within 2-3 hours following the discovery of the error, a letter of explanation, including our heartfelt apologies, was sent via email to all students who received the original message by mistake. (February 28, 2003)
SightSpeed makes easy-to-use software that turns desktop computers into high-end videoconferencing machines, thanks to new technology developed at Cornell University. Now the startup company will be able to take its innovative product to market as early as this spring with help from an investment by BR Ventures, a venture fund run entirely by MBA students at the university's Johnson Graduate School of Management. (February 27, 2003)
To open a new building by cutting a ribbon with scissors is so last millennium. Instead, the Sciencenter of Ithaca will use people power to melt a wire to officially open its new building Friday, Feb. 28. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. at the museum, located at 601 First St.
Snow falling on cedars – and other kinds of trees and shrubs in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states this winter – has caused serious damage that can be remedied, according to experts at Cornell Plantations.
This summer, NASA will sponsor four young scientists who will work on analyzing data from the largest infrared telescope to be sent into space. The telescope, called SIRTF, for Space Infrared Telescope Facility, is scheduled for launch on April 15 and will circle the sun in an orbit that trails just behind the Earth's. One of the SIRTF fellows, Henrik Spoon, an astrophysicist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, will work at Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher with James Houck, the K.A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy. (February 26, 2003)
Katerina Papoulia, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). She will receive five-year funding of $408,890 to support her research. Early Career awards are the NSF's most prestigious honor for new faculty members, recognizing and supporting teacher-scholars who are considered most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. (February 26, 2003)
Sophocles' tragic play Antigone may not be on The New York Times' suggested summer reading list, but it is required reading for more than 3,500 incoming freshmen.
The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, an education/research field station at Punta Cana on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, has been expanded and renamed the Punta Cana Association on Sustainability and Biodiversity. The newly formed consortium of academic and nonprofit organizations will accommodate the growing number of such organizations interested in using the field laboratory and the expanding environmental resources and facilities at Punta Cana. (February 25, 2003)
Like the film "Fantastic Voyage," physicians at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center can now take a journey through a patient's body.
Mark Bain, an aquatic biologist and associate professor of natural resources at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Center for the Environment (CfE). Effective Feb. 24,. Bain succeeds Acting Director Max Pfeffer, professor of rural sociology, who was named associate director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station in 2001. Announcing the appointment, Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said: "Mark brings to the Center for the Environment a fresh perspective on the integration of research, education and outreach that our college endorses and values. His extensive knowledge of environmental policies and issues are essential for the promotion of a sustainable relationship between the environment and a quality life for people here and around the world." (February 24, 2003)
The Tompkins County Sheriff's Department announced Feb. 23 that a body recovered from the Six Mile Creek Natural Area in the town of Ithaca has been identified as that of Ritesh S. Shetty, 24, a Cornell University graduate student who had been missing since Sept. 26, 2002. The body was found Feb. 20 in a densely wooded area by a hiker on snowshoes. The death has been ruled a suicide. (February 24, 2003)
