In order to maintain high-quality health services in the face of rising health care costs nationally, Cornell University's Gannett Health Center will initiate co-payments for clinician visits and psychological services beginning July 1
Internet start-up RealTime Hotel Reports LLC sells a unique product that may make its partners rich some day. It collects and sells sophisticated information about the lodging industry via the World Wide Web -- making it a single source of information designed specifically to enhance hotels' success in the highly competitive industry.
One of the most important exhibits in the history of Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will be on display from Oct. 12 through Jan. 12, 2003. "The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art" includes the promised gift of nine masterpieces of modern art to the museum's permanent collection from Betty Ann Besch Solinger, Lynn Stern and the family of the late David M. Solinger, Cornell Class of 1926. The exhibition includes 98 works of art, including a monumental nude by Pablo Picasso, nine watercolors by Paul Klee, major sculptures by Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder and "much, much more," said Frank Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the museum. (October 2, 2002)
David B. Stern, a molecular biologist who studies photosynthesis and the molecular genetics of intracellular communication in plants, has been named president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Institute for Public Affairs is presenting a lecture titled "The Break-up of Canada: Will Quebec Separatists Finally Succeed?" on Friday, April 12, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall. The lecture will be delivered by Edward Goldenberg, senior policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Just as a network of highways was planned and built to bring goods to isolated pockets of the country, so we must act now to fund and build a national information network, says Matthew Drennan, professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University. Those places that already have invested heavily in the information economy are doing much better than those still relying on manufacturing and distribution, observes Drennan in The Information Economy and American Cities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Drennan shows how information-economy expansion benefits even the urban poor, a finding disproving earlier claims. (September 25, 2002)
Roald Hoffmann argues that the system of funding graduate education must change, in light of cuts to university education budgets even as research funds increase. (Oct. 16, 2009)
A team of Cornell University graduate students has taken third place in the 2002-03 SiGe (Silicon Germanium) Design Challenge, sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC). The team of Daniel Kucharski, Drew Guckenberger and Jing-Hong Conan Zhan, graduate students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a prize of $10,000 for an optical fiber transceiver designed to operate at frequencies up to 10 gigabytes per second. The device combines on a single chip the jobs currently done by three chips in converting electrical signals to and from optical pulses in fiber-optic transmission. (September 10, 2003)