The Cornell Department of Astronomy will present a public lecture next week by Columbia University astrophysicist Malvin A. Ruderman, this year's Thomas Gold Lecturer.
Gregory B. Martin has been appointed a joint professor of plant pathology at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Students in Marcia Eames-Sheavly's Art of Horticulture class created a 10-ton earth-and-sod sculpture Sept. 4 at Cornell's turfgrass plots. (Sept. 10, 2007)
Experts in ecology, landscape architecture and horticulture will join staff members of Cornell Plantations April 13 at Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens for a day-long exploration of the "living museum" and "classroom without walls" that embraces one of the nation's most beautiful college campuses.
The most effective way to curtail the worsening obesity epidemic is to prevent weight gain with small behavioral changes before people become overweight or obese, said James O. Hill, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, speaking at Cornell, June 6. Addressing obesity and energy balance at Cornell's conference, "Ecology of Obesity: Linking Science and Action," Hill stressed that dieting doesn't work: Most people regain lost weight because once a person is overweight, it's more difficult to keep off lost weight. Instead, prevent weight gain in the first place. All it would take, he said, is an additional 2,000 steps -- walking about a mile or 15 minutes -- and 100 fewer calories a day.
Astronomy professor Donald Campbell will succeed Robert Brown as director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, the Cornell center that manages NSF's Arecibo Observatory, effective June 1. (May 1, 2008)
Walter R. Lynn, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering and of science and technology studies at Cornell University, has been named interim director of the Cornell Center of the Environment.
Bruce S. Raynor, secretary-treasurer of UNITE, the pre-eminent textile and apparel union in North America, is the recipient of the 1999 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
A public meeting will be held Tuesday, March 12, to help determine the scope of a draft environmental impact statement for an innovative plan to cool the Cornell campus. Raymond Nolan, environmental analyst with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will direct the meeting'
Charles J. Arntzen, president emeritus of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research Inc. was named Dec. 13 to President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.