Two organizations have honored Cornell's Utilities Department for its energy technology and efficiency in supplying heating and cooling to a university community of nearly 30,000 people using environmentally sound methods.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell University's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services. The five-year appointment is effective July 1.
Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and science educator Bill Nye have been appointed Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professors at Cornell University beginning July 1.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced June 19.
Susanna Throop, a May 2000 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a 1996 graduate of Newfield High School, has been awarded the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Trust Scholarship inaugurated this year.
Cornell graduate student Ricky K. Soong has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 25-29. Soong was among 31 researchers working on DOE-funded research projects at U.S. universities, national laboratories and other federal facilities selected to attend the meeting, which will focus on physics.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 21. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, E. 44th St.
Russia is teetering on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the same virulent, fungal-like pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, more commonly called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine.
If professors at the southern end of one of upstate New York's Finger Lakes furtively check their computers, then cancel class and go sailing – blame and RUSS. Remote Underwater Sampling Station is the instrument package installed June 6 in Cayuga Lake, near the Cornell campus.
Instruments aboard a spacecraft that will be launched next year to explore two, and perhaps three or more, comets in the solar system will for the first time provide a "fingerprint" of the surface of cometary nuclei, giving the first firm evidence of the composition of the icy, rocky objects.
Ronald G. Crystal, M.D., professor of genetic medicine and director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, will be the opening speaker at a day-long media workshop, "Cancer Biology: From Research to Recovery," in New York City, June 21.
