Michelle D. Wang, assistant professor of physics at Cornell, has been named a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar. Her research into the molecular mechanisms of gene expression will be supported by up to $1 million in grants to the university over the next five years from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
Cornell will host the TransPositions conference March 27-29, exploring the facets of transgender identity, culture and academic studies. Transgender studies encompass the blurring of conventional gender norms, including transsexuality, crossdressing, intersexuality and androgyny.
So far Arnold Schwarzenegger has approached the Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election in California by avoiding issues and scattering one-line sound bites, an ability he made famous through his tough-guy acting roles. This strategy should win him the election, says a Cornell University polling analyst. "Schwarzenegger needs to be as vague as possible," says Dietram Scheufele, Cornell assistant professor of communication, who teaches a course on polling techniques. He has examined recent polls and concludes the California election is not about issues but about images. (August 18, 2003)
Jane Mt. Pleasant, director of the American Indian Program at Cornell, was presented with the highest honor of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at the organization's national conference in Houston in November.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has been recommended as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her graduate alma mater, it was announced today, May 28. (May 28, 2008)
Three days after his death, Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and an architect of the age of modern atomic theory, was posthumously awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences by the American Philosophical Society (APS).
The number of children living in poverty in the United States is down to 16 percent --the lowest in 20 years. The reason is largely that more mothers -- especially single mothers -- are working and not because of changes in family structure, reports Cornell University's Daniel Lichter, in Social Sciences Quarterly. (November 28, 2005)
Cornell is putting more than 1,500 volumes -- more than 600,000 pages -- in an online archive documenting the history of home economics, thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Cornell University Library is among several large academic research libraries that now operate their own publishing offices to produce high-quality scholarly publications, either by working with local researchers or by partnering with other publishers. (November 17, 2005)
The library needs an upgrade to meet the scholarship demands of a modern university and to resolve serious life-safety and environmental problems. If the plan is approved, work tentatively could start in two years. (March 14, 2007)