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New book re-evaluates French treatment of Jewish refugees during the Nazi era

When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, some 25,000 German Jews fled to France. Now a new book by a Cornell history professor offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis in the 1930s.

Tcat prepares for transit fare change

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has been briefing drivers, employees and outlets for a systemwide fare change that will go into effect Monday, June 7.

Cornell management students post undervalued stocks on the web as a service to investors

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but now there is free, high-quality information for investors, thanks to the savvy MBA students in accounting Associate Professor Rob Bloomfield's equity research course at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Teachers of top Cornell students to be honored at May 26 ceremony STAR program honors high school teachers; Cornell faculty also will be recognized

Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers, some from as far away as Russia, Singapore and India, May 26. The teachers were selected by Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars program.

Two new books use sociology to look at how American society views body size and weight problems

How do brides prepare for their weddings when it comes to their weight? What do overweight women do to resist the social stigma of being fat?

Cornell Library announces acquisition of rare Wordsworth volumes Set of Poetical Works is noteworthy for revisions written in celebrated poet's own hand

Cornell University Library will announce the acquisition of a rare set of William Wordsworth's 'Poetical Works' (1827), annotated with the poet's largely unpublished handwritten revisions, during a public reception.

Colossal cyclone swirling near Martian north pole is observed by Cornell-led team on Hubble telescope

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the planet Mars. Nearly four times the size of the state of Texas, the storm is composed of water-ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Martian storms.

Three Cornell undergraduates awarded 1999-2000 Udall Scholarships

In its second year of participation in the Morris K. Udall Scholarship competition, Cornell University has produced three undergraduate winners of the prestigious awards for the 1999-2000 academic year.

Cornell's Lewenstein named director of New York state program to improve undergraduate science education

Bruce Lewenstein, associate professor of science communication at Cornell University, has been named director of what has been known since 1988 as the New York State Pew Program in Undergraduate Science Education.

Cornell's Carlos Castillo-Chavez named 'distinguished alumnus' by University of Wisconsin

Honoring efforts to increase numbers of minorities and women in science and mathematics, the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has named Cornell mathematician Carlos Castillo-Chavez as one of three Distinguished Alumni for 1999.

Law and Society cites Martha Fineman for lifetime achievement Her research spans family law, feminist jurisprudence and the "legal regulation of intimacy"

Martha Fineman, the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School, has been awarded the Harry Kalven Prize by the Law and Society Association (LSA).

ILR's Karin Ash is new director of Cornell Career Services

Karin Ash, director of career services at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations since 1985, has been named the new director of Cornell Career Services.