Yao Yuan Sze, a retired Seattle aerospace engineer, has endowed the directorship of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell in honor of his father.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 28 and 29. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. A 20-minute open session will be held at the start of the meeting.
Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.
Researchers in developing countries find it frustrating trying to keep abreast of the latest agricultural research because hard currency shortages prevent the purchase of hugely expensive scientific journals. Now, Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library is offering a solution: an information source it has dubbed "library-in-a-box."
Charles E. Palm, Cornell dean of the College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and the university's first Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences, died Feb. 25 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 84. As a true leader and innovator in many scientific and academic fronts.
Robert S. Hatfield, Class of 1937, died March 14 in Greenwich, Conn., where he had lived for many years and Jansen Noyes Jr., Class of 1939 (mechanical engineering) and 11th chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees, died March 16.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Cornell $5,897,513 over five years to establish the National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT).
Before leaving for their internships, students in the Engineering Co-op program at Cornell attended a banquet where they listened to Robert Shutt of RASolutions give business dining etiquette advice.