A symposium to help science educators find ways of building programs that will encourage science students to consider international experiences as fundamental to their education will be held at Cornell June 9- 12.
Teams of Cornell computer science students took both first and second place in the Association for Computing Machinery Greater New York Regional Programming Contest held Nov. 7 at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
Just one month after the terrorist attacks in the United States, more than 70 national and state leaders and college and university presidents, staff and students from across New York gathered to celebrate the signing of the charter for the New York Campus Compact (NYCC) at Pace University in lower Manhattan, six blocks west of the World Trade Center site.
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.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University researchers have won Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1996. They are among 158 artists, scholars and scientists from among 2,791 applicants to be chosen for the honor. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awarded $4.5 million in research funds this year. Fellows are chosen on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The Cornell faculty members are: P. Andrew Karplus, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, G. Peter Lepage, professor of physics, for numerical methods in low-energy strong interaction physics, and Stephen A. Vavasis, associate professor of computer science, for geometry in scientific computing.
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.
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.
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.