Cornell physicist Yuri Orlov has been named the recipient of the first Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical Society for his extensive work promoting human rights. (November 14, 2005)
With millions of orphans in Africa, more are becoming the heads of their own households at very tender ages. As such, they turn to other children for help three times more often than to other sources, finds Cornell doctoral candidate Mónica Ruiz-Casares, who studied child-headed households in Namibia. (November 14, 2005)
Raymond Knapp, musicologist at the University of California-Los Angeles, has been named the winner of the 2004-05 Nathan award for dramatic criticism. The $10,000 award, administered by the Cornell University Department of English, is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater. (November 14, 2005)
With pledge card glitches mended, the Cornell United Way Campaign surged into high gear with pledges-to-date totaling $413,855 -- 66 percent of the 627,000 goal. (November 14, 2005)
New research is expanding what we know about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of infertility in men. A team from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City demonstrated the effectiveness of microsurgical sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
The National Institutes of Health's new Neuroscience Information Framework will be designed by a consortium led by Weill Cornell Medical College, whose Dr. Daniel Gardner was awarded the prestigious competitive contract.
The Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Association recognized eight outstanding alumni and faculty at the 2005 Outstanding Alumni Awards Banquet on Nov. 4. (November 10, 2005)
About 300 people, Muslim and non-Muslim, gathered in Trillium dining hall Nov. 6 to take part in a banquet celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (November 9, 2005)
Members of the Cornell University chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) returned from the society's Eastern Technical Career Conference in Philadelphia Oct. 20-23 with an armload of prizes. (November 9, 2005)
Actor Tom Demenkoff will present a DrillingCompaNY actors workshop open to the campus community Nov. 19 in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (November 9, 2005)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit's Nov. 11 talk, "Quo vadis Europe: the Franco-German Dialogue in the European Community," is the advance keynote presentation for "Franco-German Relations and the New Europe," Nov. 19. (November 9, 2005)
The first rounds of interviews by the Presidential Search Committee are nearing completion. One of the members of the committee is Juris Hartmanis, the W.R. Read Professor Emeritus in Engineering and Computer Science. (November 9, 2005)
