Arlie O. Petters, a mathematician at Duke University, is the first recipient of the Blackwell-Tapia Prize, an award that specifically honors a mathematical scientist from underrepresented minority groups, including African Americans and Hispanics.
The proposed Life Science Technology Building on the campus of Cornell University is an integral part of the university's much larger program of cross-disciplinary research in the life and related sciences.
Paper wasps all look the same, right? Wrong. An animal behaviorist at Cornell University reports that the wasp's black-and-yellow uniform is not uniform at all.
A dietary supplement in the form of a cheap, fortified, orange-flavored drink can reduce Third World deficiencies in micronutrients such as iron, iodine and vitamin A.
A battle is ongoing between consumers, who enjoy using their computers to copy, time-shift and trade multimedia entertainment, and the entertainment industry, which would just as soon such activities were not so easy. Alan Davidson, associate director at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), will discuss the issue in a talk titled "A Nation of Felons: The Impending Political Debate Over Digital Copyright," Tuesday, Nov. 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in 265 Statler Hall on the Cornell University campus. (October 29, 2002)
Communitywide and Cornell University Frankenstein reading-and-discussion activities continue Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. at the Tompkins County Public Library with a special community forum.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 31, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council meeting.
Got mocha milk? Get it Friday, Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cornell University's Appel Commons Courtyard on the university's North Campus. This will be the last stop for the national Milk Rules! Road Trip, sponsored by the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board and Dairy Management Inc. (October 28, 2002)
Six members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 291 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.
As the main plenary speaker for the 2001 conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen reportedly gave the higher education community a D-minus for failure to engage the imagination and passion of young people for math, science and engineering.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new industry -- photonics -- is beginning to emerge as the successor to the imaging and optical products industries that supported the Rochester, N.Y., economy well into the 1980s. What's more, the emerging industry has the strength of being exceptionally diversified, suggesting it will be far more successful in the global economy than the more traditional industries that dominated the region from the 1930s through the 1980s, exemplified by Kodak, Xerox and Bausch and Lomb. So says a preliminary report from Susan Christopherson, Cornell University professor of city and regional planning, and her team of graduate student planners. Results of the team's one-year study of Rochester's photonics industry were presented at a conference in that city, Oct. 18, attended by more than 60 industry, civic, community and labor leaders and venture capitalists. (October 25, 2002)
An overwhelming majority of Cornell University's teaching assistants, research assistants, graduate research assistants and graduate assistants have voted to reject representation by the United Auto Workers union.
