Alan S. Paau of the University of California-San Diego has been named vice provost for technology transfer and economic development at Cornell and executive director of the Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise and Commercialization.
The university has established an institutionwide hotline service, via an agreement with EthicsPoint Inc., that gives faculty, staff and students a way to anonymously report irregularities and other concerns.
The cherry processing industry now has two new varieties to work with, thanks to recent releases by Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and International Plant Management Inc.
Cornell's emphasis on outreach to a wide range of farmers is now bringing science-based expertise to one of New York's most traditional farm communities: Amish families in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.
Dan Luo, whose work in nucleic acid engineering is changing the way scientists look at DNA, has garnered a prestigious 2006 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation.
Following the Sept. 23 Big Red football game against Yale, Big Red Marching Band first trumpet Dave Samuels '07 took a much-needed break on the sidewalk by Barton Hall.
Provost Biddy Martin invites all faculty, staff and students to join the Cornell Humanities Book Art Project by lending books they have authored for an art installation by Professor Buzz Spector.
David J. Gross, the Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, will give three talks on 'The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality.'
Nicaraguans Salvador Stadthagen, ambassador to the United States, and Jose Luis Velazquez Pereira, ambassador to the Organization of American States,will speak about the significance of their country's forthcoming elections.
Two librarians from the University of California-Berkeley came to campus Oct. 5 to explain how their program helps redesign high-enrollment courses so more students will do research using the university's libraries.
