Former U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), a 1939 Cornell Law School alumnus who went on to serve as a secretary of state and to run for president, died on Monday, March 25, at Georgetown University Medical Center after suffering a heart attack following surgery to open a blocked artery in his leg. He was 81.
English faculty authors paid sincere tribute, with insight and analysis, to fellow Cornell writers E.B. White '21, Phyllis Janowitz and James McConkey, Sept. 16 in Goldwin Smith Hall.
The highly endangered North Atlantic right whale population is facing a difficult journey to recovery. That recovery may become even more precarious if North Atlantic climate takes a turn for the worse, according to Cornell University ecologists.
Three Cornell researchers have won Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1996. They are among 158 artists, scholars and scientists from among 2,791 applicants to be chosen for the honor.
No one really knows what will happen when a probe from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft collides with the comet Tempel 1 in the early morning hours of July 4. But if anyone can picture the spacecraft's journey from its Cape Canaveral launch in January to its possibly brilliant demise, it is Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01.
The Cornell Public Service Center has announced the first fellows in the new Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program. The program will enable four community leaders involved in economic- and community-development efforts to join the Cornell community.
Simon A. Levin, a Cornell University professor of ecology and systematics from 1965 to 1992 and now an adjunct professor at Cornell, is the winner of the 2005 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, a prestigious award of international recognition. Levin is also now the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and director of the Center for Biocomplexity at Princeton University. The prize, sponsored by the Inamori Foundation, is awarded annually to "individuals and groups worldwide who have contributed significantly to mankind's betterment."
Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) has announced its newest service for the campus community: Time Away Responder. If you've been waiting for this service, it's here. Time Away Responder (TAR) tells people who e-mail you that you are away (perhaps on business, vacation, or medical leave) and that you'll respond to them once you return.
Five Cornell seniors have received Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee Awards for "exceptional performance, leadership and library service to the campus." At $500, the Fuerst Award is one of the largest awards given to Cornell student workers