Using mathematical equations, a Cornell University scientist and his colleagues have found evidence of a fourth spatial dimension in plants. In short, size matters even in the plant world, suggesting that "universal scaling laws probably exist," says Karl J. Niklas, the Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of plant biology.
Renaissance scholar, critic and author Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard University will give the 22nd annual Gottschalk Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Cornell Department of English, Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in Hollis Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Although more than 25 percent of Americans over age 35 think they have had a midlife crisis, more than half of these were no more than "stressful life events," says Cornell sociologist Elaine Wethington. And contrary to the traditional view, she says, women are just as likely as men to believe they have had a midlife crisis.
The Johnson Graduate School of Management has established the Center for Leadership in Dynamic Organizations, which will host its first Leadership Week, slated for March 26 to April 1, 2001, on campus. The week is comprised of three major events: an academic symposium, a corporate conference and a graduate student business conference.
Got e-Moo? Taking direct aim at the youth sports drink and carbonated soft drink industry, a carbonated, milk-based beverage has been developed by food science researchers at Cornell.
Taking the lead in two major hospitality industry events here and abroad, members of the administration, faculty and staff of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration have organized two dynamic strategy conferences.
Yoke San Reynolds, who has served as vice president for financial affairs and university controller at Cornell for the past three years and who has brought substantial changes to the university's financial function, will leave Cornell in May to become the University of Virginia's vice president for finance.
Cornell will maintain its support for a program undertaken by member universities of the Fair Labor Association to involve locally-based organizations in monitoring working conditions in apparel factories in third-world countries. In making the announcement, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
Cornell officials, responding to reports of the impending appearance of a dragon on the campus Thursday, March 15, have issued a dragon warning and road closure alert for Thursday afternoon.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its regular meeting March 9 on campus, approved a tuition increase of $1,140 for undergraduate resident students in Cornell's statutory colleges for the academic year 2001-02.
Bird lovers across the region are invited to get to know their "neighbors" by signing up for the course Spring Field Ornithology offered by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
