Éva Tardos, Cornell professor of computer science, has received the George B. Dantzig Prize, awarded jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Established in…
Sandip Tiwari, the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), has been named the recipient of the 2007 Cledo Brunetti Award from the IEEE.
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Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, received the 2006 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain, for his "deep, creative and insightful contributions to the…
Chang Y. "Cy" Lee, professor of food science and chair of the Department of Food Science and Technology at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., was recently elected a fellow of the…
When the online journal Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) accepted a paper that provided new evidence that environmental pollutants reduce the effectiveness of childhood vaccinations, the editors turned to a…
The National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA) has given its Quality Award for 2006 to the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) curriculum, which is part of the Residential Child Care Project in the Family Life…
A Cornell group of agricultural and biological engineers received a Superior Paper Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE) in July for their paper's "exceptional merit" in contributing…
The first formal public event to be held in the newly renovated and refurbished Bailey Hall will be a scholarly kickoff to the inauguration of David J. Skorton as Cornell's 12th president.
Robert Kagan, a senior associate in the…
Common scientific wisdom posits that a diverse ecosystem can still thrive if a species within it declines. But a new study found that when just one important species in a river declined, the ecosystem was seriously changed and…
It has been said that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, altered the course of U.S. history. Exactly five years later -- on Sept. 11, 2006 -- Cornell faculty members will offer relevant perspectives to this tragedy in a…
Like many of the 16 new Cornell students in the room with her, Robin Davisson first read "The Great Gatsby" in high school. On re-reading the book, she found she had something in common with the students, as well as with F. Scott…
On Monday morning, July 10, David Skorton's Day Hall office was nearly bare: clean white walls, empty bookshelves, subdued olive and beige furniture and the light smell of fresh paint. Just a few personal touches had crept in --…
