The Cornell Board of Trustees elected Miguel Antonio Ferrer, president and chief executive officer of UBS PaineWebber Inc. of Puerto Rico, as a trustee fellow May 25.
In-service tax workshops to review estate and gift taxation reporting and management will be held in New York state in Liverpool, Batavia and Binghamton in late August.
Weed it and reap: In the academic equivalent of a major bowl game, teams from Cornell University and nine other schools will compete in the Northeastern Weed Science Society's 18th annual Collegiate Weed Contest on July 31, 2001, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
The final report by the Middle States reaccreditation team, issued in late June, was glowing in its praise for Cornell University as "a truly special place."
A 33-year-old mother of two from Yonkers, New York is the first patient in the U.S. to receive robotically-assisted atrial septal defect repair, without a chest incision of any kind. The operation was performed as part of a clinical trial sanctioned by the FDA at NewYork-Presbyterian's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on July 24, 2001.
Potentially damaging soybean aphids have been detected in several central and western counties of New York state, according to Cornell University entomologists.
By observing the battle between bacterial speck disease and tomatoes, biologists have discovered how plant cells resist some ailments. Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell can now demonstrate how disease-causing organisms deliver destructive agents to plants, and how the plants fight back.
At its meeting July 19, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Board of Directors passed a resolution supporting the development of a downtown, intermodal transportation center.
For many dairy cows, summertime living isn't easy. In the northeastern United States, heat stress can make the animals more susceptible to mastitis, laminitis and acidosis. It can also adversely affect the growth rates of unborn calves and reduce a cow's capacity to make milk by as much as one-third.
The human hepatitis C virus is a target of drug-discovery research by a Cornell scientist and an Ithaca company, among the latest recipients of support from the New York Science, Technology and Academic Research program.
The Los Alamos E-Print Archive, which is widely credited with revolutionizing the way physical scientists and mathematicians communicate, is moving from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to Cornell University.
Four local organizations will share Cornell University's 2001 Tompkins Trust Co. – Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation. This is the eighth year for the award.
