Every spring since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. The nine Tradition fellows who have been honored this year for their community service and leadership efforts will use their monetary awards to benefit others.
Two Cornell undergraduate students have been recognized by the New York State Assembly as 2005 New York State Assembly Distinguished Interns, after participating in the university's Capital Semester program in Albany this spring.
Are you a weather junkie? Do you want to keep up with the latest computer security updates? Do you routinely check your stock quotes throughout the day? If you are one of the 37,000 people who have used uPortal.Cornell to keep these and other services on your computer screen and to navigate Cornell's Web space and the Internet at large, you will have discovered that a new version appeared May 22.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees has awarded named professorships to five faculty members in the College of Veterinary Medicine. They include three new James Law Professorships, an Alfred H. Caspary Professorship and a John Olin Professorship.
Robert L. Johnson is better known to his friends and co-workers as "Bob," but he's "the mud man" to his wife on some days when returning home from work as Cornell's first -- and so far only -- manager of the university's Research Ponds Facility. Arriving at Cornell in 1961 as an undergraduate student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Johnson has been on campus ever since. Johnson recently earned two awards.
NEW YORK -- An 18-month-old girl was the first in the New York City area to receive a titanium rib prosthesis to correct a severe form of congenital curvature -- or scoliosis -- of her spine that constricts the lung cavity.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca, Thursday, May 26, through Sunday, May 29, during the university's Commencement weekend. The full board will meet from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Friday, May 27, in Room 196 in the Beck Center of Statler Hall and again Saturday, May 28, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Sage Hall on the Cornell campus.
Move over, quantum dots. Make way for the new kids on the block -- brightly glowing nanoparticles dubbed "Cornell dots." By surrounding fluorescent dyes with a protective silica shell, researchers have created fluorescent nanoparticles with possible applications in displays, biological imaging, optical computing, sensors and microarrays such as DNA chips. (May 19, 2005)
The Cornell Commencement Committee has issued a list of special road and parking lot closings to accommodate numerous activities scheduled for Commencement weekend. Please note that East Avenue and the portion of Tower Road between East Avenue and Judd Falls Road will be closed Sunday, May 29, from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.
The eggs of the viburnum leaf beetle have hatched, and the larvae are beginning to chow down once again on viburnum shrubs in New York state and New England. Without the use of pesticides to protect susceptible varieties, the bushes are doomed, says a Cornell University entomologist.
Some people are never satisfied. First, nanotechnology researchers at Cornell built a device so sensitive it could detect the mass of a single bacterium - about 665 femtograms. Then they built one that could sense the presence of a single virus - about 1.5 femtograms. Now, with a refined technique, they have detected a single DNA molecule, weighing in at 995,000 Daltons - a shade more than 1 attogram - and can even count the number of DNA molecules attached to a single receptor by noting the difference in mass. (May 18, 2005)
To give the humanities and social sciences a new focus on campus, an Office of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications has been established within Cornell's Division of University Communications.
