Michael Steinberg, professor of history at Cornell University, is the recipient of a 2003 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to conduct research abroad during his 2003-04 sabbatical leave. In addition, Steinberg was awarded the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin. The latter prize will allow Steinberg to study in Berlin next fall as a member of the academy. The latest Guggenheim fellowship winners -- 184 artists, scientists and scholars -- were awarded a total of $6.7 million. They were selected from more than 3,200 applicants and chosen for distinguished achievement and exceptional promise. (May 9, 2003)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite the remarkable advances in earthquake prediction and mitigation that have been made over the past 25 years, the risk to the United States still "remains unacceptably high," a prominent Cornell University engineer told a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing today (May 8). Speaking before the subcommittee on basic research, part of the House Committee on Science, Thomas O'Rourke, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell, Ithaca, N.Y., said that at current federal funding levels he and his colleagues believe that it will take "100 plus years to secure the nation against unacceptable earthquake risks." (May 08, 2003)
New York, NY (May 7, 2003) -- An innovative treatment for the deadliest brain cancer -- consisting of pharmaceutical wafers applied directly to the brain in lieu of traditional intravenous chemotherapy -- has recently been shown to extend the lives of patients with early-stage disease, according to a physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Susan Pannullo, Director of the Division of Neuro-Oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, will discuss the treatment today (May 7), at The Delaware Valley Brain Tumor Support Group in Philadelphia, as part of National Brain Cancer Awareness Week, May 5-12.The FDA-approved treatment, which involves the implanting of dime-sized GLIADEL¨ wafers in the brain cavity following surgical removal of the glioma tumor, has shown to have a dramatic benefit for early stage brain tumor patients. A study published this year shows that patients with early-stage gliomas treated with GLIADEL live, on average, 26 percent longer than patients with traditional intravenous therapy (13.5 months vs. 10 months).
A scholarly gathering, with visitors from around the world, will be held at Cornell, May 10, to celebrate the 80th birthday one of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology's most eminent members, Professor Emeritus Fred W. McLafferty.
Army ants, nature's ultimate coalition task force, strike their prey en masse in a blind, voracious column and pay no attention to the conventional wisdom of evolutionary biologists.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told students who filled Cornell University's Call Alumni Auditorium April 23 for the first Kaplan Family Distinguished Lecture in Public Service.
Cornell University is leading a newly formed international consortium of six universities and institutes collaborating on high-energy density plasma research, with the aim of developing a promising fusion power source.
Morris K. Udall Scholarships for the 2003-04 academic year have been awarded to two Cornell University undergraduates – Abigail Krich and Summer Rayne A. Oakes.
Two members of Cornell University's faculty – one from Lebanon, the other from South Africa, one studying plant reproduction, the other probing black holes – have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," singer Joni Mitchell lamented in the 1970s. Three decades later, they are demolishing a parking lot and paving the way for a paradise.
Cornell University is to become a site in an innovative national earthquake research system linking 15 of the nation's leading engineering schools. A $2.1 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is enabling Cornell to develop a state-of-the-art facility, scheduled to open in October 2004, to test the effects of earthquake-caused damage to the nation's lifelines. These are structures, from bridges to pipelines to communications conduits, that form parts of complex networks of vital resources and services. The Cornell laboratory, a collaboration with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), will become a link in an NSF-funded chain of testing and research sites called the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The facility is under construction in the Winter Lab in Thurston Hall at Cornell's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (April 30, 2003)
