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.
Whenever Cornellians and campus visitors confess they must have missed the fabled Cornell Plantations, planners of the newly revised "Cornell Plantations Path Guide" politely disagree.
With the genomes of humans and several insects, animals and crop plants mapped or sequenced, biologists are turning their attention to single-celled algae no thicker than a human hair. Among the possible payoffs: crops requiring less fertilizer, a source of renewable energy and a new source for novel proteins.
ARECIBO, P.R. -- Arecibo Observatory, the world's most sensitive and largest radar-radio telescope, is inaugurating an annual lecture series named for William E. Gordon, who was professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., when he conceived of an instrument to study the properties of the ionosphere, the Earth's upper atmosphere. The inaugural lecture will be given Tuesday, Nov. 12, by Harold Ewen, a retired engineer who was a doctoral candidate at Harvard University in 1951 when he designed and built a horn antenna that would make the first detection of a hydrogen radio emission from interstellar space. Ewen will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Angel Ramos Foundation Visitor Center at the observatory. The lecture is open to the public without charge. (October 24, 2002)
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings assumed the chairmanship of the Association of American Universities (AAU) at its annual fall meeting held Oct. 20-22 at Emory University, after serving a one-year term as vice chair of the group. He succeeds Robert Berdahl, president of the University of California-Berkeley. John T. Casteen, president of the University of Virginia, was elected vice chair. (October 24, 2002)
The Cornell University Department of English will host a conference "Some Futures for the Twentieth Century," Oct. 25 and 26 in Goldwin Smith Hall D. All talks, including a post-conference reception and Saturday luncheon buffet, are free and open to the public. "In the wake of the millennium, scholars of British and U.S. 20th-century literature and culture are exploring innovative ways to think about their period -- a period that now has not only a beginning but an ending," said Molly Hite, Cornell professor of English and conference coordinator. "They are basically asking: What exactly was the 20th century?" (October 23, 2002)
The Cornell University Department of English will host a conference "Some Futures for the Twentieth Century," Oct. 25 and 26 in Goldwin Smith Hall D. All talks, including a post-conference reception and Saturday luncheon buffet, are free and open to the public. "In the wake of the millennium, scholars of British and U.S. 20th-century literature and culture are exploring innovative ways to think about their period -- a period that now has not only a beginning but an ending," said Molly Hite, Cornell professor of English and conference coordinator. "They are basically asking: What exactly was the 20th century?" (October 23, 2002)
Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University, has been named winner of the American Geological Institute's (AGI) most prestigious award, the Ian Campbell Medal. Rhodes, an internationally renowned geologist and educator, will receive the award during the Geological Society of America (GSA) Presidential Awards Ceremony in Denver on Sunday, Oct. 28. Rhodes also is professor emeritus in the Cornell Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. (October 23, 2002)
