Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, for a personal visit June 26-28.
Planners of the new Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where construction will begin this month in anticipation of a Winter 2002 opening, face a daunting challenge.
President Hunter Rawlings briefed smiling members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at its final meetings May 25 and 26, on three key areas in which the university has made great strides over the past academic year: research, admissions and faculty and staff salaries.
To celebrate their 45th alumni reunion, June 8--10, Jon A. and Virginia M. Lindseth, both members of the class of 1956 have bestowed a major collection of material documenting the American women's suffrage movement to Cornell University Library.
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital today announced its participation in a new international study organized by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International to understand how genes contribute to the development of diabetic kidney disease.
When galaxies collide, they leave clues in the wake of their primordial history: radio beacons from their tell-tale hearts. Thanks to an upgrade of the radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, these radio beacons 50 peculiar extragalactic objects called OH megamasers.
June 4, 2001-High levels of so-called "good" cholesterol in the blood sharply reduce the risk of stroke among elderly whites, blacks and Hispanics, Columbia researchers have found.The finding adds to growing evidence that healthy behaviors such as exercise, weight loss, smoking cessation and moderate alcohol use may help prevent stroke.
In the 1940s, Nell I. Mondy was usually the only woman in chemistry wherever she went. How the young woman from the deep South broke into the male-dominated academic world.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees on May 25 voted to accept the recommendation of President Hunter R. Rawlings to begin the process to close the Ward Center for Nuclear Studies and to decommission the nuclear reactor associated with the Center.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced May 24 the reappointment of Franklin W. Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The appointment, which is for five years beginning July 1.
Robert C. Richardson, the Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics and vice provost for research at Cornell University, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Richardson also is a member the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell, where he conducts research in the unusual properties of solids and liquids at temperatures closely approaching absolute zero. In 1996 he shared the Nobel Prize in physics with David Lee, the J.G. White Distinguished Professor in Physical Sciences at Cornell, and Douglas Osheroff, now professor of physics at Stanford University, for the discovery of superfluidity in liquid Helium-3.
Jeremy Kubica, who will graduate this spring from Cornell University with a degree in computer science, has received a graduate fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.
