More than 90 percent of all businesses in this country are family businesses, which make them an integral part of the American economy. Strengthening these family firms will be the focus of the 1997 Chautauqua Family Business Conference: Growth and Transitioning, Monday, July 14.
Scott McMillin, Cornell professor of English, has been awarded the Sohmer-Hall Prize for outstanding work in early English theater and staging. McMillin shares the honor with Sally-Beth MacLean at the University of Toronto for collaboration on their book.
Edwin E. Salpeter, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell, has won the 1997 Crafoord Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday (May 28).
Steven B. Belkin, a Cornell alumnus, chairman and founder of Trans National Group, a Boston-based privately held corporation, and the principal owner of the professional sports teams the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Thrashers, will be honored on Oct. 14-15, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.
Cornell researchers are playing an important role in yet another planetary space mission, this time to Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system. On June 30 at approximately 10:30 p.m. EDT, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will go into orbit around Saturn for an extensive tour.
In the first study to test people who eat foods that have been bred for higher-than-normal concentrations of micronutrients, nutritional sciences professor Jere Haas and colleagues found that the iron status of women who ate iron-rich rice was 20 percent higher than those who ate traditional rice. (November 29, 2005)
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 31, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council meeting.
This weekend, the Department of Music is presenting two concerts to celebrate world music at Cornell. Both events are free and open to the public. (Oct. 14, 1999)
Every day, more and more information is available worldwide in digital form. Cornell is holding a meeting to explore the future of digital libraries, from Oct. 17-19. The conference is the first of eight to be held over the next four years.
It's become an annual Orientation week rite of passage at Cornell - the New Student Reading Project, which involves programs surrounding the reading of a text in common by all first-year students.