Professor Francis C. Moon has won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 2007 Lyapunov Award, recognizing lifetime contributions to the field of applied nonlinear dynamics. (Jan. 4, 2007)
Cornell has been awarded nearly $600,000 by the National Science Foundation for an innovative program to attract more people to computing careers, in which undergrads will mentor middle school students in 'virtual worlds.' (Jan. 3, 2007)
A close relative of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) can be eliminated by waste and drinking water treatments, including chlorination, ultraviolet (UV) radiation and bacterial digesters. The virus is harmless to…
The Cops, Kids and Toys program distributed toys to more than 1,000 children and about 425 families Dec. 18 and 19 in the Ithaca and Tompkins County area.
Joseph Price, a graduate student in economics at Cornell, has found that a first-born child receives 20-30 more minutes of quality time each day with a parent than a second-born child of the same age from a similar family.
Lynne Snyder Abel, former associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Nov. 29 due to complications of multiple myeloma. She was 66.
About 2,000 people attended a keynote speech in New York honoring the late Urie Bronfenbrenner given by his daughter Kate, Cornell's director of Labor Education Research in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Susan Holt has been named to the newly created position of chief development officer at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is responsible for creating a new Office of Institutional Advancement.
With above-average warmth throughout the Northeast, several cities in the region face top-10 warm Decembers, according to Cornell's Northeast Regional Center.
