When French justices at the Cour de cassation in Paris expressed a need to establish a library of American jurisprudence, CU's Claire Germain suggested donating duplicate copies from the Law School's collection. (June 27, 2007)
About 1,000 people convened in Bailey Hall Sept. 26 to hear experts discuss the U.S. presidential candidates' positions on health care, immigration and Social Security. (Sept. 30, 2008)
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Johnson School Dean L. Joseph Thomas discusses the silver lining of high oil prices for U.S. manufacturing. (Sept. 29, 2008)
The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT), in which Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a major participant, has found that certain advanced emphysema patients benefit little from Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) and are at unacceptable risk of death from the procedure.
Stephen T. Golding, Cornell executive vice president for finance and administration, has unveiled a functional reorganization of the university's Division of Finance and Administration (CUFA) to better serve the university. (June 25, 2007)
The composition of the Presidential Search Committee to nominate a successor to Cornell President Hunter Rawlings was announced on March 30, by Harold Tanner, chair of the Board of Trustees; Peter C. Meinig, chair-elect; and Edwin H. Morgens, vice chair.
Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $1.3 million, four-year grant by the National Science Foundation to produce and study polymer microphotonics.
Some of North America's most misunderstood animals, the timber wolves, will try to set the record straight in a live appearance Sunday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in Cornell University's Statler Auditorium.
In a move aimed at positioning Cornell for the future, university officials will reallocate $20 million from nonacademic costs to academic and institutional strategic priorities by fiscal year 2004-05, President Hunter Rawlings announced on Sept. 5.