Biologists and acoustic engineers based at Cornell will join researchers at two sites in Africa in a new program to monitor the numbers and health of forest elephants by eavesdropping on the sounds they make. New monitoring procedures will be tested in the Central African Republic.
Theories behind people's eating habits and ideas on revamping hospital inventory management were just two of the nearly 100 Cornell undergraduate research topics featured April 18 in Duffield Hall. (April 20, 2007)
The Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education has accepted Cornell's Periodic Review Report and reaffirmed without condition the university's accreditation. The commission, at its November 1996 meeting, deemed no follow-up to be necessary and set the next regular evaluation visit for 2000-2001.
A universitywide steering committee has developed a preparation and response plan that establishes parameters for planning and provides specific guidelines governing campus functions if a pandemic occurs. (Sept. 19, 2008)
President David Skorton has issued a statement in response to the April 16 tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, and he has announced a Sage Chapel remembrance scheduled for April 19. (April 17, 2007)
For the first time in Cornell history, Chinese high school students are spending six weeks earning credit at the university's Summer College program. The U.S. government granted visas on June 23 to the students, who arrived in Ithaca on June 24.
Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicts that 2010 will bring flat growth, high unemployment rates unlikely to budge, and continued turmoil in the housing market. (Dec. 9, 2009)
The leader of the Los Angeles County Home-Care Workers Union, the second largest local in the nation, and a labor reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was a Pulitzer prize nominee are part of Union Days 2002 at Cornell University. This year's theme, "Unions, Democracy and Civil Society," looks at the role of the labor movement in achieving political and economic justice. Union Days, which aims to make students aware of the issues at the forefront of labor organizing, takes place at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Ives Hall, April 10-12. Events are free and open to the public. (April 3, 2002)
Maurie Semel, Cornell University professor emeritus of entomology, whose research work bolstered the Long Island, N.Y. potato and vegetable industries, died Feb. 10, 2005, in Bucyrus, Ohio. He was 82.
From the first page of Helena Maria Viramontes' book 'Their Dogs Came With Them,' the reader is bombarded with a kaleidoscope of sensory images that create a world like a tile mosaic, one small, vibrant piece at a time. (April 11, 2007)