D. Merrill Ewert, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), has been named president of Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, Calif. His appointment is effective July 1. Ewert joined the Cornell University faculty in 1991 as a professor in the Department of Education, where he taught, conducted research and implemented extension programs focused on community-based development. In April 1998, Ewert was appointed director of CCE and associate dean for outreach in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and in the College of Human Ecology. (January 15, 2002)
Terrill Cool, professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell, has been awarded $354,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a three-year study of combustion chemistry.
The National Dairy Shrine has given the 2007 Pioneer Award to Robert Foote '50, Cornell emeritus professor of animal science, and alumni Richard Keene '57 and Dale Van Vleck, Ph.D. '60. (Nov. 5, 2007)
Charles Van Loan, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has been named the new chair of the university's Department of Computer Science.
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
For the first time, physician-scientists at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility (CRMI) of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have taken a breast cancer patient's ovarian tissue that was frozen for six years, reimplanted it under her abdominal skin, and obtained an embryo from eggs collected from the tissue.
After what he calls 'a thousand years' of learning, teaching and writing, Cornell Law School luminary Robert S. Summers taught his last class Dec. 1. (Dec. 1, 2010)
Associate Dean Stanley Bowman has been named acting dean of the college. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1973, Bowman will serve as dean until a new dean is appointed.
"We're all about connecting theory to practice," said Michael Johnson, dean-elect of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
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