Philip Liu, professor of civil and environmental engineering, will help the National Central University in Taiwan establish a joint program in ocean sciences with the Academia Sinica in Taipei. (June 9, 2007)
Cornell's Gannett Health Center is consolidating its services, renovating its space, revising its fee structure and improving its student insurance plan this fall to accommodate changing health care patterns nationwide and to better serve its clients.
STS researchers 'want to understand how science and technology as forms of knowledge are produced; how their credibility is tested; how they change over time,' explains department chair Stephen Hilgartner. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Experimental evidence provided by a Cornell researcher and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., supports a long-held theory of how and where proteins fold to create their characteristic shapes and…
The Pew Charitable Trusts have granted $2 million toward the renovation of White Hall on the Cornell University Arts Quad. Named after Andrew D. White, Cornell's first president, White Hall is a $12 million project now underway and slated for completion in the fall of 2002 and ready for occupancy in Spring 2003. It is the top capital funding priority for the College of Arts and Sciences and an important part of the university's initiative to enhance undergraduate education. (May 7, 2002)
Cornell's senior administrative staff convened Jan. 28 for a tabletop exercise led by university emergency planning consultant Bob Emery of the University of Texas-Houston's Health Science Center. (Feb. 6, 2008)
Four incoming freshmen from India are the first recipients of the Tata Scholarship for Students from India, creating the inaugural class of what could eventually comprise two dozen Indian undergraduates at Cornell. (May 6, 2009)
In many recent large earthquakes - such as in Northridge, Calif., in 1994 and in Kobe, Japan, in 1995 - some of the most alarming damage was to buried natural gas pipelines, most of them curving along rights-of-way using vulnerable elbow joints.