Political scientist Roxanne Euben to speak on 'Travel, Translation and Comparative Political Theory' for fifth Cornell College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture, Sept. 15. (Sept. 7, 2010)
Michael Steinberg, professor of history at Cornell University, is the recipient of a 2003 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to conduct research abroad during his 2003-04 sabbatical leave. In addition, Steinberg was awarded the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin. The latter prize will allow Steinberg to study in Berlin next fall as a member of the academy. The latest Guggenheim fellowship winners -- 184 artists, scientists and scholars -- were awarded a total of $6.7 million. They were selected from more than 3,200 applicants and chosen for distinguished achievement and exceptional promise. (May 9, 2003)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A Cornell University study may have the last word on whether a reform of New York workers' compensation program would save money and ensure quality medical care. The pilot program requires employees of participating companies who are injured at work, and therefore eligible for workers' compensation, to seek medical care from a managed care organization rather than from their family physicians. The experimental program will test whether a major overhaul of New York's workers' compensation program would affect the quality of care while enabling insurance companies to reduce premiums, which have been accused by some as contributing to the migration of business from the state.
Researchers for Cornell's Lake Source Cooling project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new industry -- photonics -- is beginning to emerge as the successor to the imaging and optical products industries that supported the Rochester, N.Y., economy well into the 1980s. What's more, the emerging industry has the strength of being exceptionally diversified, suggesting it will be far more successful in the global economy than the more traditional industries that dominated the region from the 1930s through the 1980s, exemplified by Kodak, Xerox and Bausch and Lomb. So says a preliminary report from Susan Christopherson, Cornell University professor of city and regional planning, and her team of graduate student planners. Results of the team's one-year study of Rochester's photonics industry were presented at a conference in that city, Oct. 18, attended by more than 60 industry, civic, community and labor leaders and venture capitalists. (October 25, 2002)
An alumni panel of experts discussed the nation's legacy of debt and future of global recovery at a Cornell Wall Street event April 24 in Washington, D.C. (April 26, 2012)
The world's smallest guitar — carved out of crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell — has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.
It was imagery of the Garden of Eden that inspired apparel design student Jessie Fair to create a flowing, asymmetrical gown of silk dupioni and organza. The piece won a top design prize. (Dec. 23, 2008)
Betsy Cooper of Amherst, N.Y., a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, is one of 76 students selected from a national pool of 635 candidates to win a prestigious Truman Scholarship.