A campuswide campaign will encourage students, faculty and staff to join the nationwide Power Down for the Planet challenge to reduce information technology energy consumption. (April 1, 2009)
Mary F. Berens, a 1974 graduate of Cornell, has been appointed director of alumni affairs at the university, said Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Berens succeeds James D. Hazzard, a 1950 Cornell graduate.
John Guckenheimer, Cornell professor of mathematics and of theoretical and applied mechanics, was selected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He will begin his two-year term in January 1997.
From Sage Hall March 26, President David Skorton hosted a webcast 'town hall meeting' with nine of the university's most active alumni in the first of what is expected to be many such conversations. (March 30, 2009)
More than 80 percent of America's seniors say they want to remain at home as they age. Their degree of independence, however, depends largely on their community's features and services.
Congressmen Luis Fortuno of Puerto Rico and Dana Rohrabacher of California have introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to ensure continued operation of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell University now will begin exchanging information with scientists in developing countries, beginning with Mexico, on vaccines that are easier to deliver, thanks to a new Rockefeller Foundation grant.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell a three-year, $1.35 million grant to provide high school teaching fellowships for college graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences.
Looking to replace your car with a newer model of the same make? Watch out. Your loyalty may actually cost you several thousand dollars more for the same car than a person who is switching his or her allegiance to a car manufacturer, said Dick Wittink.
A monthly seminar series on forests and woodlot management is being offered in an interactive Web format and will teach participants strategies to enjoy and utilize their property. (April 30, 2007)