Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin announced today (Sept. 5) that she has appointed a faculty committee to begin the search for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Although the residents of New York City share as much concern for the environment as their upstate neighbors, 20 percent of city residents do not know where their water originates, and four out of five New York City residents have confidence in the safety of the city's tap water, according to the preliminary results of a survey by two Cornell experts.
Murad Idris, a postdoctoral associate in the government department and a Mellon Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow, discussed peace across the history of political thought on campus March 8.
A consortium of eight New York colleges and universities, including Cornell, will receive grants to support connection to a special high-speed computer network as part of a National Science Foundation grant announced by President Bill Clinton yesterday (Feb. 26).
The wall of a plant cell is no longer just a biological bulwark. It is a critical component in science. To update other biologists with fresh information about plant cell walls, Jocelyn Rose, a Cornell University assistant professor of plant biology, has edited a new book, The Plant Cell Wall, published by Blackwell Publishing. "This book is especially appropriate given the recent completion of the first plant-genome sequencing projects and our entry into the 'post-genomic' era," said Rose, who joined the Cornell faculty as part of the university's Genomics Initiative. "Such breakthroughs have given an exciting glimpse into the substantial size and diversity of the families of genes encoding cell wall-related proteins." (December 4, 2003)
Northeastern bees have suffered population declines over the last 140 years, largely due to human encroachment, but none has faced a more devastating collapse than the humble bumble bee.
The Cornell University Department of Statistical Science has become a department of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science. (November 29, 2005)
More than 200 faculty members gathered Sept. 16 to talk with President David Skorton and Provost Kent Fuchs about the university's strategic planning process.