Biologist W. Lee Kraus has received the Richard E. Weitzman Memorial Award, which recognizes an exceptionally promising young clinical or basic investigator for his or her independent scholarship. (May 17, 2007)
While much of the eastern United States digs out from the Blizzard of '96, the snow has stopped falling but snowfall records continue to fall and storm-related anecdotes pile up, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Four Cornell University undergraduates -- two sophomores and two juniors -- are winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. The students are sophomores Peter M. Clark of Flemington, N.J., majoring in biology, chemistry and mathematics, and Matthew Moake of Cedaredge, Colo., majoring in biology; and juniors Adam Berman of Bethesda, Md., majoring in physics, and Yolanda Tseng of San Jose, Calif., majoring in biological engineering. (April 11, 2002)
The Northeast survived the 11th warmest February in 103 years of record -- warm enough to shatter six all-time temperature records for the month and set or tie 47 daily high-temperature records, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Anne LaBastille, Cornell alumna (B.S. '55, Ph.D. '69), adjunct professor of natural resources at Cornell and author of more than a dozen books, will be on campus April 29, for a public reading and signing of her new book.
Cornell will host the Dalai Lama, speaking on 'A Human Approach to World Peace,' Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. in Barton Hall. Tickets can be purchased online only starting May 23. (May 14, 2007)
Researchers have identified regions of a fish brain that reveal the basic circuitry for how all vertebrates, including humans, generate sound used for social communication.
Cornell has received an all-time high of 33,011 applications for freshman admission, the Office of Admissions and Enrollment announced last week. (April 7, 2008)