The cost of illness is much higher for many large businesses that self-insure their employees' health care than would be indicated by medical bills alone.
Two teams of Cornell University graduate students in the university's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have finished in third and fourth place in phase one of a nationwide integrated circuit-design contest sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC). Both teams will move on to a second phase of the contest, in which the chips they designed will be fabricated by IBM and returned to the students for testing and evaluation. The will be to demonstrate that the l chips work as predicted. The winners of the contest will be announced in July. (February 28, 2003)
Diversity is more than skin color, language and family differences. To 3- and 4-year-olds, it can be as simple as wearing glasses, knowing how to tie shoes, eat with chopsticks or simply having a different point of view.
The Undergraduate Admissions Office at Cornell University regrets the very serious error that occurred Wednesday morning when an email that was intended only for admitted early decision students was sent to a wider pool of applicants. Within 2-3 hours following the discovery of the error, a letter of explanation, including our heartfelt apologies, was sent via email to all students who received the original message by mistake. (February 28, 2003)
SightSpeed makes easy-to-use software that turns desktop computers into high-end videoconferencing machines, thanks to new technology developed at Cornell University. Now the startup company will be able to take its innovative product to market as early as this spring with help from an investment by BR Ventures, a venture fund run entirely by MBA students at the university's Johnson Graduate School of Management. (February 27, 2003)
To open a new building by cutting a ribbon with scissors is so last millennium. Instead, the Sciencenter of Ithaca will use people power to melt a wire to officially open its new building Friday, Feb. 28. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. at the museum, located at 601 First St.
Snow falling on cedars – and other kinds of trees and shrubs in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states this winter – has caused serious damage that can be remedied, according to experts at Cornell Plantations.
This summer, NASA will sponsor four young scientists who will work on analyzing data from the largest infrared telescope to be sent into space. The telescope, called SIRTF, for Space Infrared Telescope Facility, is scheduled for launch on April 15 and will circle the sun in an orbit that trails just behind the Earth's. One of the SIRTF fellows, Henrik Spoon, an astrophysicist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, will work at Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher with James Houck, the K.A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy. (February 26, 2003)
Katerina Papoulia, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). She will receive five-year funding of $408,890 to support her research. Early Career awards are the NSF's most prestigious honor for new faculty members, recognizing and supporting teacher-scholars who are considered most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. (February 26, 2003)
Sophocles' tragic play Antigone may not be on The New York Times' suggested summer reading list, but it is required reading for more than 3,500 incoming freshmen.
The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, an education/research field station at Punta Cana on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, has been expanded and renamed the Punta Cana Association on Sustainability and Biodiversity. The newly formed consortium of academic and nonprofit organizations will accommodate the growing number of such organizations interested in using the field laboratory and the expanding environmental resources and facilities at Punta Cana. (February 25, 2003)
Like the film "Fantastic Voyage," physicians at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center can now take a journey through a patient's body.
