While examining the flight behavior of flesh flies, Cornell University entomologists have discovered that males of the species (Sarcophagidae: Neobellieria bullata) -- traveling at very high speed, soaring in sexual pursuit and swiveling their heads like gun turrets -- literally can lose sight of a target female. Yet the males compensate for the momentary loss of vision and still catch up to mate. A detailed explanation of this quirk in vision physiology and neurological processing could help military and aerospace engineers to build aircraft and artillery that have improved detection of evasive targets. (November 10, 2003)
More than 12,000 fleecy muffs, message magnets, stress balls, picture dominoes and other simple items are helping to reduce agitation, boredom and behavior problems for 8,000 Alzheimer's patients across New York state.
Social relations, culture, politics, law and gender influence economic decisions. Studying the roles that these factors play in economic phenomena is called economic sociology.
Justice is the hallmark of Janet Reno's life work and "Justice" is the title of her final public talk as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. The former U.S. attorney general and Class of 1960 Cornell University graduate will deliver her talk as a sermon Sunday, Nov. 9, at 11 a.m. in Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus.
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman will be honored Nov. 6 by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) with a 2003 National Equal Justice Award for his role in the successful defense of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy before the U.S. Supreme Court. The award will be presented at a gala dinner at the Hilton New York in New York City. Emmy award-winning actress Alfre Woodard will be mistress of ceremonies at the event. The Supreme Court last June upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy in a decision widely hailed as a landmark in the law of higher education. Lehman served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School from 1994 to July 1, 2003, when he assumed the presidency of Cornell. During his tenure as dean, he helped shape the legal argument for universities' freedom to consider race as a limited factor in the admissions process in order to achieve meaningful levels of racial integration. When the Supreme Court upheld the Law School's admissions policy, Lehman said, "The question is no longer whether affirmative action is legal; it is how to hasten the day when affirmative action is no longer needed." (November 04, 2003)
Alicia S. Torrey has been named director of the newly created Cornell Alumni-Student Mentoring Program in Cornell University's Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The Cornell Alumni-Student Mentoring Program (CASMP) is sponsored and funded by the Provost's Office, in conjunction with the offices of Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, Alumni Affairs, Minority Educational Affairs and Vice President for Student and Academic Services. (November 04, 2003)
The Turkish mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus, and a representative from the Greek mayor's office of Nicosia have traversed a once impenetrable border, not to mention the Atlantic Ocean, in order to attend a forum at Cornell.
Experts at Cornell Plantations can help ward off those early winter blues and welcome the upcoming holidays with November workshops on chair caning, fall flower arranging and holiday design.
Four members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are among 348 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year. The four are Donald Campbell, professor of astronomy; David Grusky, professor of sociology; David Hammer, the J. Carleton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering, and Ray Wu, professor of molecular biology and genetics. (October 31, 2003)
Cornell University's Kids Growing Food program is accepting 2004 garden grant applications from elementary and secondary schoolteachers in New York state. The grants will help teachers establish or maintain a food garden on school grounds. The application deadline is Dec. 8, 2003. Kids Growing Food is the hands-on component of the New York Ag in the Classroom program. Its purpose is to teach students to understand how food grows by providing them with gardening experience at school. (October 31, 2003)
