Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories, will deliver a public lecture as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor during his visit to Cornell University Feb. 6-9. Scolnick's lecture.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees approved a 2001-02 budget that calls for a 4.9 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges at its meeting in New York City Saturday (Jan. 27, 2001).
Mathematician Paul Olum, who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, became chair of the mathematics department at Cornell and then provost and president of the University of Oregon, died Jan. 19.
Cornell has announced four finalists in an invited architecture design competition for its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. The $25 million project is intended to provide new studio space and other related services and offices for the Department of Architecture.
The Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell University will celebrate its 25th anniversary with 7 p.m. gospel performances Friday, Feb. 16, and Saturday, Feb. 17, in Bailey Hall on campus.
Cornell University Police were contacted Monday, Jan. 22, at approximately 11 p.m. by university employees concerned about the disappearance of one of their associates.
Martha Albertson Fineman, the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School, has been awarded a grant of $824,000 from an anonymous donor to sponsor a three-year exchange program for faculty and students interested in gender, sexuality and the family.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel for David Meng, 19, an undergraduate student at Cornell University, who died Dec. 10 in Ithaca. The Rev. Rick L. Bair, pastor of St. Luke Lutheran Church and minister in Cornell United Religious Work, will preside.
Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are facing the worst staffing crisis ever, resulting in patient deaths, injuries, careless errors and risk of abuse, says Cornell University gerontologist Karl Pillemer.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $250,000 grant to Cornell University to boost the marketing infrastructure for lambs and goats in the Northeast. The initial project, which runs to July 2002.
Low-level noise in open-style offices seems to result in higher levels of stress and lower task motivation, according to a new study by a Cornell University environmental psychologist. And, surprisingly, experienced workers in these mildly noisy offices make fewer ergonomic adjustments to their workstations than do workers in quiet offices.
It's becoming a tradition for Douglas Stayman: The Cornell University marketing expert and his students will play Monday morning quarterback, of the commercial sort, following Super Bowl XXXV.
