An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (April 5, 2012)
A large, cheerful crowd of students, faculty, alumni, staff, local residents and campus visitors got a taste of the Cornell community spirit at the Street Fair on the Arts Quad Aug. 25. The event followed the installation of Martha E. Pollack as Cornell’s 14th president.
Move over Sir Isaac Newton and make way for quarks and leptons. A theory that has been part of the physics canon for more than 30 years is now making its way into New York state's high school science classrooms.
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has retired after more than five years as vice provost for land grant affairs and special assistant to the president, as of June 30, 2005. Francille Firebaugh retires as vice provost for land grant affairs
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., New York City.
Cornell has been tapped as one of five Sun Grant Centers of Excellence - regional hubs that will solicit and fund proposals that focus on using renewable agricultural resources to produce heat, electricity and fuel, natural products, such as biopesticides and bioherbicides, and industrial chemicals.
New York and Toronto (December 4, 2002) -- Study findings from the Department of Public Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Inner City Health Research Unit at St. Michael's Hospital/University of Toronto demonstrate that screening and treating new immigrants from developing nations for the latent stage of tuberculosis infection would result in substantial public health and economic benefits. Results are published in the December 5 issue of "The New England Journal of Medicine."Lead author Dr. Kamran Khan conducted his research in the United States while a resident/fellow in preventive medicine in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell. He is currently a specialist in infectious diseases and public health, and a clinician-scientist at St. Michael's in Toronto.
The paper showed that the income growth of the U.S. middle class, long portrayed as stagnant, may be more than 10 times greater than previously suggested by some economists. (Nov. 6, 2012)
Ronald Seeber, Cornell professor and associate dean in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and co-director of the ILR School's Institute on Conflict Resolution, has been named to the position of Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs.