In a move designed to enhance the stature of Jewish studies at Cornell, university officials have announced the creation of three new named professorships in Jewish Studies
"The economic paradigm that explains human behavior allows you to understand the way the world works," says Richard Burkhauser, the new chair of Cornell's Department of Policy Analysis and Management, explaining why economics is his field of choice.
Their confidence high, average investors still lose out consistently to the professionals, Cornell study finds. Theory aside, efficient markets fail to protect the "little guy."
Cornell University Library has acquired the Maeda Collection, the personal library of Japanese literary scholar and critic Maeda Ai. The acquisition was made possible by some $400,000 in gifts from Cornell alumni, friends, faculty and faculty emeriti.
Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Awards Convocation on May 1. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in Lecture Room D in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell Plantations gardeners are crediting a mild winter for this spring's spectacular bloom of rhododendrons, including more than 300 specimens on display at Comstock Knoll.
John O. McClain, professor of production and quantitative analysis at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named the president of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.
The Cascadilla Gorge Trail that links downtown Ithaca with the Cornell campus by way of the Collegetown business district has been opened for the season by Cornell Plantations.
The Cornell Tradition program at Cornell has honored 12 seniors for their outstanding demonstration of the program's values of work, service and scholarship, with $2,500 awards.
The hotter, the better, when it comes to spices, says Paul W. Sherman, a Cornell neurobiology professor who will speak at the annual herb festival, Saturday, June 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cornell Plantations.
"My children have very little idea of what is behind these and other marvelous inventions, which they see as so commonplace. This book is to help them appreciate and wonder at the material nature of our world.
