Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will speak on "Biotechnology: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Agriculture" when he addresses the Cornell Genomics Colloquium on March 10.
Two teams of Cornell University graduate students in the university's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have finished in third and fourth place in phase one of a nationwide integrated circuit-design contest sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC). Both teams will move on to a second phase of the contest, in which the chips they designed will be fabricated by IBM and returned to the students for testing and evaluation. The will be to demonstrate that the l chips work as predicted. The winners of the contest will be announced in July. (February 28, 2003)
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is a focal point for a growing network of film and media studies scholars across campus, with two recent conferences and nine faculty members added to the graduate field. (May 6, 2009)
Links to stories, including President Skorton's State of the University address, and a slide show from Reunion Weekend, June 7-10, 2007. (June 13, 2007)
Cornell Police received a report this morning from a Forest Home Drive resident at 7:29 a.m. of a smell of diesel fuel and an oil slick on Beebe Lake on the Cornell campus.
Gene R. Wheeler, director of finance and administrative operations in the College of Human Ecology, Cornell, has been named assistant dean for finance and administration in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
In a letter to the editor, David Stapleton, director of Cornell's Institute for Policy Research and board member of Our Voices Together, encourages giving gifts that make a difference. (December 6, 2005)
The first near-Earth triple asteroid was discovered this week by astronomers using the radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory. The objects, which are rotating around each other, are about 7 million miles from Earth. (Feb. 13, 2008)
Cornell University officials said today (July 29) that they are fully cooperating with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office in Syracuse in the investigation into the alleged theft of research materials by a scientist formerly employed at Cornell. Qingqiang Yin, 38, was detained at a security checkpoint at Syracuse International Airport July 28 when vials containing unknown substances were found in his luggage and in that of his wife and 4-year-old daughter, who were accompanying him. (July 29, 2002)
Having a romantic relationship makes both men and women happier -- and the stronger the relationship's commitment, the greater the happiness and sense of well-being of its partners, according to a study by Cornell University's Claire Kamp Dush. (December 01, 2005)