Part of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies 40th anniversary celebration was a panel discussion, 'Feminism Mapped,' with some of the program's founders and directors, Feb. 10.
Gail Collins, the editorial page editor of The New York Times, will present the 2002 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture at Cornell University Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture, titled "How Women Got Their Voice," is free and open to the public. Before being appointed to her current position with The New York Times, Collins was a columnist for the Times' op-ed page from 1999 to 2001 and a member of the Times editorial board. Before joining the Times in 1995, she had been a columnist at New York Newsday and at the New York Daily News. She also was a financial reporter for United Press International in New York. (October 15, 2002)
NEW YORK (JUNE 16, 2005) -- In a successful procedure today at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/The Allen Pavilion, a robot for the first time functioned as an independent assistant to the surgical team by handing and retrieving surgical instruments. The robot performed all of its assigned functions properly, a key validation of this important new technology and a dramatic demonstration of the potential for automation in the operating room.The robot, known as the Penelopeª Surgical Instrument Server (SIS), uses innovative technology to identify surgical instruments, hand them to the surgeon, retrieve them and put them back in place. This new robot was designed and developed by Robotic Surgical Tech, Inc. (RST) of New York. The procedure performed was the removal of a benign tumor on the forearm.
Cornell research suggests that milkweed plants may be shifting away from elaborate defenses against specialized caterpillars toward a more energy-efficient approach, namely, fast repair. (July 21, 2008)
Tickets are on sale until Oct. 24 for the Annual Cornell Employee Celebration, Nov. 1. The celebration features Cornell athletic events and a community dinner in Barton Hall, 3-5 p.m. (Oct. 2, 2008)
Endowed employees enrolled in the Cornell Program for Healthy Living will no longer need a fitness certificate to receive monthly discounts from fitness centers at Ithaca YMCA or Island Fitness. (Oct. 2, 2008)
Events on campus July 2-16 include free Arts Quad and Schwartz Center concerts, lectures by Rachel Dickinson and Jim Maas, family films, paddling at Beebe Lake and gardening at the Minns Garden. (July 1, 2010)
Two Cornell undergraduate students have been recognized by the New York State Assembly as 2005 New York State Assembly Distinguished Interns, after participating in the university's Capital Semester program in Albany this spring.
The Third Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference, on campus Sept. 22-23, explored the connections between risky decision-making and brain mechanisms. (Oct. 7, 2011)