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George Boiardi, a Cornell senior student, was struck in the chest with a lacrosse ball late in the fourth quarter of a game against Binghamton University on March 17 at Schoellkopf Field. He was rushed to Cayuga Medical Center, where he later died.
Rodney R. Dietert, professor of immunotoxicology in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named director of the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell.
The Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S. Ag.) degree program in public garden management, a new academic specialty announced in 2002 by the Cornell University Department of Horticulture and Cornell Plantations, has just enrolled its third crop of fellows. One hundred and five years earlier, that department was founded by the "Dean of American Horticulture," Liberty Hyde Bailey, who subsequently conferred the cryptic name, "Plantations," on the Cornell unit that now administers the university's arboretum, botanical garden and natural areas. (May 9, 2003)
Debora Kuller Shuger, professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, will visit Cornell in April to deliver a lecture titled "Glutinous Gums and the Stream of Consciousness: The Theology of Milton's Comus."
George Washington slept here? Perhaps. Students in Cornell's Historic Preservation Seminar are scouring the hills and valleys of the Town of Ithaca in search of historic and architecturally significant homes and buildings.
A research team at Cornell has succeeded in converting nitrogen into ammonia using a long-predicted process that has challenged scientists for decades.
A team of three computer science students from Cornell will compete with 62 teams from six continents in the finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.