Jason Koski/University PhotographyArtist Patrick Dougherty's Collegetown sculpture has been erected over the past several weeks. Above, people check out the finished work during the opening reception Sept. 21.Lindsay France…
Theodore L. Hullar, the biochemist who served as chancellor of the University of California at Davis and at Riverside in the 1980s and '90s, as well as director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in the 1980s, will return to Ithaca as director of the Cornell Center for the Environment.
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, is the winner of the prestigious 2005 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. The $30,000 prize is the world's largest in the field of plant molecular biology. The prize, awarded by the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB), is for Tanksley's pioneering work in genome mapping, comparative genomics and marker-assisted breeding of crop plants. (January 24, 2005)
Cornell University students, faculty and alumni are invited to enter the first annual Business Idea Competition sponsored by the Big Red Venture Fund, a student-managed combined fund and business incubator for start-up ventures.
Much of the world of technology, says Trevor Pinch, is built on trust: Trust that the engineers have done their job responsibly, trust that they have the right expertise to do the job properly. "
With a raucous crowd rocking the house, the Cornell Big Red men's basketball team rolled over Brown, 74-65, before a near-sellout audience of 4,254 at Newman Arena on Saturday night. (Feb. 25, 2008)
In a talk at Cornell, Feb. 20, Dr. Wan Yanhai, one of the most outspoken Chinese AIDS activists, said the Chinese government has taken more aggressive action to fight HIV/AIDS in China, but it's not enough. (Feb. 25, 2008)
Two investment rating services have given Cornell University's bonds high ratings, indicating they consider the university to be in good financial health. Standard & Poor's Corp. recently announced it had assigned its AA rating on the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York's $132 million revenue bonds series 1996, issued for Cornell. At the same time, Moody's Investors Service issued a Aa rating on the bond series.
William P. Thurston, professor of mathematics at Cornell University and a world-renowned mathematician in the area of topology, has won the 2005 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Book Prize. The award, which is given every three years, recognizes "an outstanding research book that makes a seminal contribution to the research literature, reflects the highest standards of research exposition, and promises to have a deep and long-term impact in its area." The prize was awarded Jan. 6 in Atlanta, Ga. The prize honors Thurston's book Three-dimensional Geometry and Topology, edited by Silvio Levy. The book describes Thurston's "geometrization program," a major event in modern mathematics that has the celebrated Poincaré Conjecture as a corollary. (January 12, 2005)
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.