Ruth Schwartz, professor emerita in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, died Sept. 19 as the result of a motor vehicle accident. She was 87. Funeral services were held Sept. 24. (Sept. 27, 2012)
It's not every day (surely) that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) gets startling briefings on the state of woodchuck health. Clinton was at Cornell to attend an evening meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference of New York State.
If you've always wanted to sit in on a real live appeals court, here's your chance. On Friday, Nov. 9, the Third Department of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division will be in session at Cornell's Law School.
Rachel Bean, Peter Diamessis, Matthias Liepe, Anders Ryd and Kyle Shen have received National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards to fund specific research projects. (Aug. 27, 2009)
A new initiative -- Consumers, Pharmaceutical Policy and Health -- is under way in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) at Cornell University, thanks to a Merck Company Foundation pharmaceutical policy grant. The renewable grant of $200,000 a year for three years involves at least eight faculty members and is allowing PAM, which is in the College of Human Ecology, to undertake research projects and develop graduate course content on pharmaceutical policy. The department also will issue a series of pharmaceutical policy working papers, sponsor seminars on pharmaceutical policy and offer fellowships, research assistantships and internships to graduate students. (January 29, 2003)
V.P. Elmira Mangum said the revised guidelines provide units with assistance in determining how to proceed with capital projects and clear direction on funding requirements before a project can go forward. (Sept. 26, 2012)
An entirely new class of rubbery plastics has been produced in the laboratory by a Cornell researcher and two co-workers. Because the material uses two common and inexpensive petroleum products, ethylene and polyethylene, for its feedstock, the research has the promise of greatly reduced production costs.
Gene Network Sciences (GNS), a fledgling cancer-research company started by Cornell University graduate students and financed by Cornell business students, has been awarded a $2 million federal Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grant. ATP is administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and makes annual grants that are matched by industry. GNS was founded two years ago, and just 10 months ago it received funding of $125,000 from the Cornell Big Red Venture Fund, a venture capital group operated by students of Cornell's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. The investment was the fund's first in biotechnology. (October 21, 2002)
NEW YORK -- Amandeep Singh, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College student in the Tri-Institutional Medical Scientist Training Program affiliated with Rockefeller University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer…
Holocaust survivor Marianne Willems-Hendrix endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Cornell despite never having attended the university. It encourages study of Jewish women. (Sept. 24, 2012)