It's official for 1996: The 12-state Northeast was sopping, soggy, soaked and sodden as the region sloshed its way to the wettest year in more than a century -- 102 years of official records -- with 53.89 inches of precipitation.
W. Kent Fuchs, head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Michael J. and Catherine R. Birck Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, has been named the Joseph Silbert Dean of the College of Engineering at Cornell University. (March 8, 2002)
Carl A. Kroch, a legendary bookseller who was a foremost benefactor of Cornell University, died March 6 of natural causes at his home in Chicago. He was 84.
Kenneth P. Birman, Cornell professor of computer science, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's oldest and largest organization of computer professionals. He will be formally inducted, along with 33 other new members.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings issued the following statement today on administrative changes associated with the Office of the Associate Provost for Human Relations. It was announced Nov. 12 that Winnie Taylor is leaving that post, effective Jan. 1.
Families in upstate New York reap numerous benefits, such as a strong sense of safety, moderate cost of living, proximity to jobs and relatives and numerous community amenities according to a new study.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $25 million to Cornell to support the construction of the signature building for a planned information campus.
For those students graduating this year, consider this: More than 83 percent of employment recruiters on college campuses believe that basic computer literacy plays an "important" or "very important" role in the hiring process of recent college graduates, according to a survey from Cornell.
The 12 Northeastern states are on a record-setting pace, to make 1996 one of the wettest - if not one of the most memorable - weather years in the last 102 years of weather data, according to a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center.