Jason Millman, a Cornell professor of education and an expert on standardized testing methods, died Feb. 22 in Lake Oswego, Ore., where he was visiting family. He died from complications arising from Shy-Drager Syndrome. He was 64.
To help reduce pesticide use in European apple orchards, growers in Romania can now grow scab-free fruit without having to rely entirely on chemical solutions. Thanks to cooperation between Romanian scientists, Cornell and Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., the scientists started a project to grow scab-free apple varieties developed by Romanian apple breeders to resist the scab, which causes a rough-shaped lesion on the fruit.
Cornell sociologist Matthew Brashears has received a $797,000 grant to develop methods of identifying covert social networks, including terrorist networks. (June 11, 2010)
In making decisions about leasing Cornell lands for natural gas drilling, the university should be responsible and transparent, according to a committee of Cornell faculty, staff and students.
The Microsoft case, Clinton administration policy and intellectual property rights all will be discussed at a Cornell Law School symposium on April 10.
The following testimony is scheduled to be delivered by Henrik N. Dullea, Cornell vice president for university relations, at a New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education hearing on "Rethinking SUNY." The hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Morris Conference Center, State University of New York at Oneonta.
About three-quarters of middle-income, dual-earner couples in a study in upstate New York - and almost all of those couples raising children - "resist the demands of a greedy workplace" by scaling back their work commitments for the sake of their families.
Former Nicaraguan vice president Sergio Ramirez will deliver two public talks during his visit to Cornell next week. The first address titled, "Adios Muchachos: The Sandinista Revolution Revisited," a personal account of the events that took place in Nicaragua during the 1980s and early 1990s.
A remarkable collection of scientifically accurate glass sea life sculptures by famous glass artists goes on display June 11 in Mann Library with a lecture by Cornell expert Drew Harvell.