The visit of former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to Cornell University planned for May 29-31 has been postponed. A new date for his visit has not been determined.
Hunger is associated with poor health among low-income children in the United States, conclude nutritionists from Cornell and the University of Michigan in the first national study to determine if the level of food deprivation that occurs in the U.S. is severe enough to affect children's health.
Cornell Associate Professor Wendy M. Williams is the 2001 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Robert Fantz Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.
Early Sunday morning, April 29, at the Cornell University Duck Research Laboratory in Eastport, N.Y., trespassers forcibly entered an animal-holding area and removed 247 Pekin ducks. The trespassers vandalized portions of the facility by spray-painting slogans that identified them as the Animal Liberation Front .
A symposium on child welfare and child protective policies over the past 50 years is slated for May 5, at Cornell University. The symposium celebrates Child Abuse Prevention Month and the career of James Cameron.
Dogs blinded by an inherited retinal degenerative disease had their vision restored after treatment with genes from healthy dogs, marking the first successful gene therapy for blindness in a large animal. The treatment offers hope for humans with a similar condition.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has issued the 2001 list of "most wanted birds" to raise awareness of declining bird species and to encourage participation in a citizen-science project, The Birdhouse Network. Birds on the list represent the 16 avian species about which researchers have little nesting information.
The planned visit of former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to Cornell University May 2-4 has been postponed for health reasons. His visit to Cornell is now planned for May 29-31. Lee, 78, underwent coronary medical procedures in Japan during the past week. His travel plans are being changed on the advice of his physicians.
Provost Biddy Martin today (April 25, 2001) issued a statement concerning Cornell's plans for the renovation and improvement of its Africana Studies and Research Center.
After careful review and input from members of the campus community, Cornell University officials have completed a reaccreditation self-study, in preparation for an on-site visit from an outside evaluation team scheduled for the end of the month.
The Vietnam Moving Wall will be displayed on the Agriculture Quad at Cornell University from Tuesday, May 1, through Saturday morning, May 5. The public is invited to opening ceremonies for the Moving Wall on May 1 at 5:30 p.m. on the Ag Quad.
Robert Connelly, professor of mathematics, will present the Cornell University Mathematics Department's annual Math Awareness Month lecture, "How to Unfold a Carpenter's Rule in the Plane," April 28 at 2 p.m. in 251 Malott Hall on campus.
