George D. and Harriet W. Cornell of Delray Beach, Fla., and Central Valley, N.Y., made history this October by making the largest scholarship gift ever given to Cornell, the Ivy-League research university in central New York state.
Barely measurable amounts of energy, released as body heat, could be the difference between holding the waistline or adding 10 pounds a year, say Cornell researchers who turned couch-potato rats into exercising athletes.
Put another notch in the thermometer. October became the eighth month this year in the Northeast with temperatures averaging above normal, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Cornell's mock trial team took first place in the Ivy League Invitational Mock Trial Tournament at Yale University on Nov. 13 and 14, beating a team from archrival Princeton in the fifth and final round.
Cornell professor Ronald Ehrenberg has a vision: to use his experience as a top-level university administrator to help colleges and universities across the United States run better. "Ron is one of the smartest people I know and probably the single best professional student in this country on the economics of higher education," said Cornell Provost Don M. Randel.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Nov. 19, 1998) issued the following statement to the campus community: "Over the last four weeks, there have been at least six incidents in which members of the university community have been the subject of harassment because of their race, ethnicity or sexual orientation."
It's the luminescent bovine event of the holiday season. Those clopping sounds emanating from the Cornell Dairy Bar rooftop belong not to reindeer but to Cornell University cows.
Feminist leader Betty Friedan will discuss whether Americans need a "values revolution" in a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in Room 305 Ives Hall.
William T. Miller, a key scientist on the Manhattan Project team that developed the atomic bomb in World War II and a member of the chemistry faculty at Cornell from 1936 to 1977, died Nov. 15 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca.
The device in Norm Weeden's laboratory at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station looks more like a high-tech waffle iron than something that could revolutionize the science of selective plant breeding.
It brought a breath of fresh air. That was the achievement of a remarkable agricultural invention called the slotted inlet ventilation, dreamed up by Cornell Professor William F. Millier. Now the 50th anniversary of the discovery is to be celebrated by ASAE.
A campus memorial service for David J. Wasdyke, a Cornell student who died Nov. 7, will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the chapel at Anabel Taylor Hall. Janet Shortall, assistant director of Cornell United Religious Work, will conduct the service.
