Microbiologist David Russell was awarded more than $600,000 in federal stimulus funds as he races to better understand how the bacterium that causes tuberculosis survives inside human cells. (Oct. 15, 2009)
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The leading North American conference on derivative financial markets takes place in New York City's financial hub this April 25 and 26. The opening speaker is Stephen Ross, the inventor of arbitrage pricing theory (APT) and other findings that have helped change the way people think about investing. One Nobel laureate in economics said of Ross: "Listen carefully. Everything he says is like gold." Ross' latest ideas and other empirical results in futures, options, new forms of pricing models and risk management will be shared at the 13th Annual Conference on Derivatives. It is sponsored by Cornell University's Theory Center and Johnson Graduate School of Management and The Mathworks, and takes place at the New York Information Technology Center, 55 Broad St., 4th floor. (April 18, 2003)
Composer and Cornell professor Roberto Sierra has been selected to compose the inaugural work for the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium, an alliance of 12 American orchestras. (Aug. 4, 2008)
Cornell University will partner with the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Eben-Ezer University of Minembwe to offer two virtual courses, one on peace building and another on African disease patterns.
Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue.
On May 25, Cornell President David Skorton announced the $25 million gift, which will establish the Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigatorships in the Life Sciences. (May 26, 2007)
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Board of Directors elected Cornell President David Skorton to its board for a four-year, unrenewable term beginning April 28. (May 3, 2011)
Nutritionist Patsy Brannon served on an Institute of Medicine committee to update recommendations, including tripling the intake of vitamin D for healthy people. (Jan. 7, 2011)
Michael Huyghue '84 and Seth Payne '97 threw the team a party in downtown Jacksonville to celebrate the team's visit to their city and to wish them luck in the tournament. (March 19, 2010)