David L. Funk has been appointed as the next director of the Program in Real Estate at Cornell University. He will assume his new duties Aug. 1. Funk was previously the director of the MBA Program at the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama.
India, which has cornered the world economy's virtual backroom, now will bring leading American science, engineering and computing faculty from Cornell and other top colleges to teach students at Amrita University and, thanks to EduSat and emerging distance-learning strategies, other Indian institutions of higher learning.
Until now, there has been no way to sterilize human tissue. The potential for a product that can do the job is one reason MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management made a savvy investment pick in NovaSterilis, a start-up biotechnology company in Lansing, N.Y.
Ithaca doesn't qualify for membership in the G8, but it has its own powerhouse group of eight. This cluster does not discuss aiding children in Africa, but rather, it seeks to educate every child and adult in Ithaca via hands-on learning.
Carol L. Anderson, professor emerita of human development at Cornell and president of LORAC Consulting, received the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences' (AAFCS) Distinguished Service Award, the association's highest honor.
Cornell Police have made several new arrests for trespassing and one for criminal tampering in the Redbud Woods. The arrests came after a Monday (July 18) deadline passed for protesters to vacate the West Campus site of a new parking lot. At 3 p.m.
NEW YORK -- Two biofuel projects coordinated by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) with support from the Northeast SUN Grant Center for Excellence at Cornell University will begin this summer in New York City. Their goal? A real-world assessment of the viability of biofuels both as a readily available resource and as a replacement fuel for heating buildings and powering diesel vehicles.
Hotels and restaurants now can accurately compute all the costs associated with losing and replacing an employee, thanks to a free Web-based management tool from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
Cornell's President Hunter Rawlings and protesters fighting a proposed West Campus parking lot in the Redbud Woods reached a truce Monday, June 18, 72 hours after a chain-link fence was erected around the two-acre site.
Cornell and the Redbud Woods protesters have reached an agreement on building the replacement parking lot on West Campus. The university will assume additional responsibilities as a result of this agreement and is satisfied that the resolution of this situation is a positive development for all concerned.
Cornell scientists have developed a rapid, less costly and sensitive new technique for detecting group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause scarlet fever. Details will be announced July 18 at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans.
