Max J. Pfeffer, professor of rural sociology at Cornell, has been named associate director of the university's Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental activist, author, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, will give the Kaplan Family Distinguished Lecture.
Arun Gandhi, founder of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, will be the keynote speaker at the eighth annual Cornell Tradition Convocation, March 7.
Many New York state dairy farmers, who have suffered for two decades without affordable, disease-resistant forage to supplement grass for their animals, are getting their fields of dreams.
The director of a Cornell program that integrates life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, has been awarded $999,000 by a New York state research-funding agency.
Bringing the future into the present, surgeons at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have pioneered the use of robotic surgery for gallbladder removal.
Nominations and applications are being sought for Cornell University's Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning. The deadline for submissions is March 31. The fellowship was created by Cornell alumni Barbara Kaplan '59, her husband, Leslie Kaplan, son Douglas Kaplan '88 and daughter Emily Kaplan '91 in recognition of the importance of the national movement in higher education for greater involvement in civic engagement. Two $5,000 awards will be given to Cornell faculty members seeking to establish or expand innovative service-learning projects that actively involve Cornell students in community-based action research, teaching and outreach efforts that address important community-identified policy issues. (March 3, 2003)
Under a black cloth in a small cylinder in the basement of a Cornell building, a storm is raging. The cloth is there to protect the unwary from the centerpiece of the laboratory, an instrument equipped with a laser beam powerful enough to harm the retina of the eye.
The United States might control much of the planet's wealth, but more than 10 percent of its households don't always have enough food to eat. One way to reduce the incidence of families running out of food, a significant nutrition study at Cornell has found, is education in food selection and resource management.
