To help midcareer faculty in Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who want to change their research direction, the family of the late Howard N. McManus Jr. has established an endowed faculty research award and graduate fellowship fund. The fund honors McManus (1921-1974), who was a Sibley School professor from 1957 until his death. (August 23, 2002)
Upon his retirement, Jim Maas, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of psychology, has written an open letter to the Cornell community. 'You have given me 48 wonderful years,' he says.
David Wippman has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs at Cornell Law School, effective this June. Wippman is a professor at the Law School whose areas of expertise include public international law, human rights and the laws of war. Wippman received his B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude; his M.A. in 1978 from Yale University; and his J.D. in 1982 from Yale Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal. That same year he started his clerkship with Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following a stint as an associate with the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy in 1982-83, Wippman joined a new Washington, D.C., law firm, Reichler and Appelbaum, in 1984, becoming a name partner in 1987. (July 01, 2004)
Cornell's CUSat has been chosen as the winner of the University Nanosatellite Program's Nanosat-4 competition. The prize is a NASA launch into orbit. (April 2, 2007)
The university, fraternities, sororities and students in general are pitching in to help 12 students whose Collegetown residence was destroyed by fire.
UltrOZ Elite Therapy System is a wearable, therapeutic ultrasound system for horses.The technology was developed by George Lewis, a Cornell medical ultrasound researcher and former graduate student. (June 1, 2011)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new Cornell University study on work and the family finds that support from supervisors and a sense of control over work schedules and workloads are becoming more and more important to today's workers as they struggle to work and raise families.
Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering and other disciplines are helping New York state address a broad range of transportation problems, from how to promote car pooling and optimizing highway maintenance management to how to get trains and freight trucks on coordinated schedules, and a host of other issues related to making transportation more efficient, safe and less costly.
The Cornell Mushroom Club will host a demonstration Sunday, July 30, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the McDaniels Nut Grove on the cultivation of different types of mushrooms. It is free and open to the public.
A survey asks Cornell researchers what they need to do research involving massive amounts of data, as a step in upgrading the university's cyberinfrastructure.