Helen Schember has been named executive director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, joining Frank DiSalvo, CCSF director since the center's September 2007 inception. (Jan. 11, 2008)
Alfred Blumstein has spent 40 years offering a systems perspective for informing decisions and policies in crime-reduction efforts, incarceration and cost effectiveness. (Oct. 15, 2008)
A battle is ongoing between consumers, who enjoy using their computers to copy, time-shift and trade multimedia entertainment, and the entertainment industry, which would just as soon such activities were not so easy. Alan Davidson, associate director at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), will discuss the issue in a talk titled "A Nation of Felons: The Impending Political Debate Over Digital Copyright," Tuesday, Nov. 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in 265 Statler Hall on the Cornell University campus. (October 29, 2002)
Almost gracing the century mark, Cornell alumnus and entomologist William Arthur Rawlins died Dec. 31, 2007, in Black Mountain, N.C., at the age of 99. (Jan. 9, 2008)
President David Skorton, at a town hall discussion organized by WVBR-FM's 'Sunday Forum' April 10, stressed efforts to increase the affordability of Cornell and his hopes for Cornell in the future. (April 14, 2011)
Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or habitat. In other words, biologists can now reasonably estimate how much biomass is underground just by looking at the stems and leaves above ground. Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate to root biomass across the vast spectrum of land plants. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Arizona spent two years poring over data for a vast array of plants -- from weeds to bushes to trees -- in order to derive mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. (February 19, 2002)
Research fellow Nimat Hafez Barazangi said Muslim women can use the Quran to build a stronger identity for themselves in Muslim societies at a talk at Cornell Sept. 16. (Sept. 22, 2010)
A student has used Cornell technology to make a mask, hooded jackets and shirts that can trap and decompose harmful gases for military applications or for people living in smog-choked cities. (April 12, 2011)
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced the reappointment of W. Kent Fuchs as the Joseph Silbert Dean of the College of Engineering for a second five-year term.