Applying what he learned from spearheading the deregulation of the airline industry, Alfred E. Kahn, the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Cornell and one of the most influential figures in public utility deregulation.
James A. Perkins, who as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969 led the campus during its most tumultuous years of social change, died August 19 in Burlington, Vt. He was 86.
New, incoming students will be welcomed to Cornell with a week of activities, events, trips and speakers, tailored just for them. Approximately 3,300 freshman, 500 transfer students and 1,500 new graduate and professional students will flock to campus.
The Cornell Center for Materials Research is offering several outreach programs for children, ages 5 to 8, during the 1998-99 school year. There is no charge for the events, but parents are asked to participate in the workshops with their children.
Researchers have reported significant progress in making a new generation of transistors based on gallium nitride, a material that promises to deliver up to a hundred times as much power at microwave frequencies as the semiconductors now used in cellular telephones, military radar and satellite transmitters.
The Cornell Food Industry Management Distance Education Program is offering food-safety certification programs for food retailers at both the state and national levels. The Food Protection Certification Program was developed in cooperation with the Food Marketing Institute.
In 1940 near a small town in southern Poland called Oswiecim, close to the confluence of the Vistula and Sola rivers, the Germans built an enormous camp they called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and early 1945, according to the 'Encyclopedia Britannica,' between 1 million and 5 million people, many of them Jews, were killed.
In the past, wine made from New York state fruit, like strawberries, apples, cherries and peaches, and vegetables, like rhubarb, has been considered the ugly step-child of winemaking. That was then.
Three centuries of vegetable history are on display as crops in Cornell Plantations' Pounder Heritage Vegetable Garden reach their late-summer peak and university gardeners invite the public to inspect their handiwork.
Men and women seem to have an equal tendency to avoid dating people with eating disorders. But when it comes to obesity, men are far less accepting than women, says a new Cornell study.
Many people are unwittingly poisoning the environment by not maintaining septic systems, neglecting wells, overusing pesticides and dumping paint and motor oil on the ground, among other acts of carelessness, says a Cornell environmental chemist.
One Cornell Law School student helped a mentally impaired local man recover funds that had been mismanaged by a financial adviser. This is just one examples of how 120 Cornell law students each year donate between five and 25 hours a week as part of their clinical course work.
