ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Executive Committee of Cornell University's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 11:30 a.m. April 18, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session, for the meeting's first 20 minutes, will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Provost Don M. Randel on the status of the state budget; and a recommendation on the 1997-98 capital budget request for the statutory colleges.
The university, fraternities, sororities and students in general are pitching in to help 12 students whose Collegetown residence was destroyed by fire.
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.
The device in Norm Weeden's laboratory at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station looks more like a high-tech waffle iron than something that could revolutionize the science of selective plant breeding.
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)
A Weill Cornell Medical College research team surveyed nearly 350 LGBT doctors, nurses and other health care professionals and trainees to better understand the support they receive and the obstacles they face in academia.
Peter Krebs no longer has to wait in line for his favorite Cornell Bear Deal combo meal. Frustrated by long lines at campus cafeterias, he has found a better way: Ordering online. The idea came to him on a cold February evening in 2000. At the time Krebs was a junior living on North Campus and fed up with waiting for an hour for dinner, only to find the counter window closing for the day. Instead of calling up for pizza, Krebs took his gripes to then-Cornell Dining Director Nadeem Siddiqui, who encouraged Krebs to find a solution. Two years later Krebs, C.E. '01, M.Eng. '02, and his four partners developed and successfully demonstrated their prototype, which they trademarked as Webfood. (March 24, 2005)
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)
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)
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)