Investments in China by U.S. firms have increased from $200 million in 1989 to $7.8 billion in 2000 and the country once described as a 'sleeping giant' is now the United States' fourth largest trading partner, after Canada, Mexico and Japan.
Cornell and its various Jewish groups have joined together to provide the framework for a more vibrant community for Jewish life on campus, including campus-wide kosher dining.
In an effort to cut down on alcohol-related car crashes, injuries and deaths, Cornell Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and fielding DWI saturation patrols randomly on and near campus throughout the coming academic year.
Michele M. Bailey, DVM, director of animal care and veterinary services at the University of Western Ontario, has been named associate vice provost for research animal resources at Cornell and director of Laboratory Animal Services in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
The President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to Cornell's president, has awarded its 2001 research grants to seven women faculty members.
Paula England and Robert Max Jackson, two leading scholars in the field of gender studies, will go head-to-head in a debate on gender equity in the workplace Friday, Sept. 7, at 3 p.m.
Daniel J. Decker has been named associate dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca.
By probing single-wall carbon nanotubes with an atomic force microscope (AFM), researchers at Cornell have found new ways to cut and bend the tiny tubes.
A symposium , 'Global Developments in the 21st Century,' will be hosted by Cornell's new Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Institute for Global Development, Sept. 21-22.
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has been given the new title of vice provost for land grant affairs to recognize her work with the contract colleges.
Two groups of Cornell researchers have been awarded U.S. defense agency contracts aimed at exploring a new generation of electronics technology at the molecular and nanoscale levels.
