Women's History Month is being celebrated at Cornell during March with a series of lectures, performances, seminars, readings, conferences and round-table discussions.
Daniel Ellsberg, the Cold War hardliner turned antiwar activist who brought the Pentagon Papers to the nation's attention, will deliver a free public talk titled "Abu Ghraib, Vietnam and Empire" on Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
The senior class garnered donations from a record-breaking 53 percent of the class, with a total of $66,402 raised. The check was presented during Senior Convocation, May 24. (May 24, 2008)
Cornell officials announced today that the search for a developer for the proposed downtown Ithaca office building has led to detailed negotiations with Ciminelli Development Company Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. The university will be a major tenant in the mixed-use facility, to be located on or near the Ithaca Commons.
Stewart J. Schwab, professor of law at Cornell Law School and a specialist in labor and employment law, has been reappointed the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Law School. (May 23, 2008)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Using spectral tools for infrared and submillimeter wave observations, astronomers are looking for the building blocks of life in all the right places: where there might be oxygen and where it is wet.
Serena Suewei Chan, a Cornell graduate student in statistical science, has been awarded a grant to research bioterrorism for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The announcement was made by U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, whose district includes parts of Cornell. Chan, who was chosen by the agency from among 2,500 applicants, will work with her adviser, Gennady Samorodnitsky, professor of operations research and industrial engineering, to develop an epidemiological computer model of how terrorists could create an epidemic, such as smallpox. (September 22, 2003)
New York, NY (May 19, 2002) A physician in Weill Cornell Medical College's Division of Hematology/Oncology is reporting that a recently developed monoclonal antibody, called J591, targets an antigen expressed in the blood vessels of solid tumors. The physician, Dr. Matthew I. Milowsky, who is just finishing a term as a fellow in the division, makes his presentation today to the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), which is meeting in Orlando, FL.Dr. Milowsky, who will become an Assistant Professor in the division this July, explains that J591 was developed by a colleague, Dr. Neil Bander, and manufactured by Millennium Pharmaceuticals, of Cambridge, MA. "J591 recognizes the extracellular domain of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)," Dr. Milowsky says. PSMA, so named because it was first found in the prostate, is present in the blood vessels of numerous solid tumors, but not in normal blood vessels of benign tissues. The hope is that by attaching a radioactive molecule or other anti-cancer agent to J591, doctors will be able to target tumors specifically for the delivery of therapy.
The Syracuse Gallery of Superb Printing, which issues awards for outstanding examples of printing in Central New York, has honored Cayuga Press of Ithaca with 15 awards -- two of them for publications from Cornell's Akwe:kon Press.
ITHACA, N.Y. --The Cornell University administration was informed May 14, 2002, that a group of graduate students, called the Cornell Association of Student Employees/United Auto Workers (CASE/UAW), has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking to be recognized as a collective bargaining agent on behalf of Cornell graduate research assistants, teaching assistants, research assistants, graduate assistants, readers, graders, tutors and consultants. The Cornell administration views this action with serious concern. On the one hand, the university has a long history of participation in both the American and international labor movements. On our own campus, the administration presently bargains with six different bargaining units. These negotiations have always been conducted in good faith by both the university and its represented workers. (May 15, 2002)