The Cornell University Library (CUL) is seeking talented minority high school students from Tompkins County to participate in its inaugural Library Junior Fellows Program. Six to eight students will be selected for the paid summer program, which runs from July 1st through Aug. 9th. Deadline for applications is May 10. Junior fellows are required to work 24 hours a week on specific projects and receive on-the-job training through workshops in information literacy, and technology and research skills. They can practice those new skills on their very own refurbished computer, given to them -- for keeps -- as part of their job. In addition Junior Library Fellows will receive career counseling. The library also provides a Cornell Dining Pass for the first week of employment and a TCAT Summer Fun bus pass. (April 26, 2002)
New York, NY (January 25, 2002) - One of the challenges posed by the tubercle bacillus, which causes tuberculosis (TB), is to understand how the bacillus, once it infects tissue, persists for a person's entire lifetime despite the attack of the body's immune system. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) persists despite prolonged oxidative and nitrosative stress-forces that the immune system uses to kill many other invading pathogens. Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, led by Dr. Carl Nathan, have now found that Mtb defends itself against oxidative stress by using a "bucket brigade" of proteins - including two proteins that have been widely known as being involved in essential metabolism.
Cornell University is using a $3.8 million settlement from the Libyan government to establish an endowed professorship in memory of Kenneth J. Bissett, who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. (December 20, 2005)
The Northeast enjoyed warmer-than-normal temperatures during December. Most states averaged temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees warmer than normal. New Hampshire was the exception on the high end, averaging 3.3 degrees warmer than its long-term normal for the month, which is 22.9 degrees.
Charles McClintock, professor of policy analysis and management and associate dean for state relations in Cornell's College of Human Ecology, will be leaving Cornell in July to become dean of human and organization development at the Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Two Cornell University graduate students and a researcher have won a top prize in the 2003 Collegiate Inventors Competition for building an utlra-small electronic generator. Their award of $25,000 was presented at a ceremony at the New York Public Library, Manhattan, on Oct. 23. The three are applied physics student Keith Aubin, mechanical engineering student Robert Reichenbach and research associate Maxim Zalalutdinov. Their advisers on the project, Harold Craighead, Cornell professor of applied and engineering physics, and Jeevak Parpia, Cornell professor of physics, shared a $5,000 prize. (October 27, 2003)