Small farmers in India will soon have a cheaper, safer and more effective option for growing one of India's favorite foods: genetically modified eggplant, developed with Cornell's help. (Feb. 10, 2009)
Dr. Bill Pape, director of the GHESKIO Clinic in Haiti, encourages Cornellians to keep Haiti and its plight in the public consciousness and donate what they can, but to refrain from traveling there. (Feb. 16, 2010)
Cornell University's Law School has one of the most published faculties in the country. According to the Chicago-Kent College of Law Review Faculty Scholarship Survey, Cornell has the third most prolific law faculty in the nation.
Taking the lead in two major hospitality industry events here and abroad, members of the administration, faculty and staff of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration have organized two dynamic strategy conferences.
Pat Podufalski, an administrative aide in the president's office at Cornell since 1977, was injured in a car accident as a young woman. Those who observe her at work for the first time marvel at how efficiently she is able to do her job despite the perceived challenges of using a wheelchair.
Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland-College Park, will deliver the 2004 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. The title of Telhami's talk, "The Stakes: America in Iraq and the Middle East," is similar to the title of his most-recent book, The Stakes: America in the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003). (March 26, 2004)
Proving that even minor planets can survive cosmic fender-benders, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a large crater -- with an estimated diameter of 285 miles and about 8 miles deep -- on the asteroid Vesta, according to an article published in today's issue of the journal Science (Sept. 5).
Two members of the Cornell University faculty have been awarded Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. They are Lillian Lee and Andrew Myers, both assistant professors of computer science. The two are among 104 young scientists and economists selected as 2002 Sloan fellows, representing faculty from 53 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The fellowships, totaling $4.16 million this year, allow scientists to continue their research with awards of $40,000 each over two years. Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. (April 15, 2002)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 8 and 9. The board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and again from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. The morning session will be open to the public from 9 to approximately 10 a.m. Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report on the Student Assembly, by assembly president Uzo Asonye, a junior; a report on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, by assembly president Patrick Carr; and an update on the state budget, including proposed statutory college tuition.