Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, will give the Harry S. Kieval Lecture In Physics at Cornell on Monday, March 31.
Francis A. Kallfelz, D.V.M., has been appointed a James Law Professor of Medicine at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. His appointment was approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees at its March meeting.
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)
What's a pet to do, when the holiday house fills with sights and smells of the season and humans are looking the other way? Probably get into trouble, and pet owners should prepare to deal with toxic temptations, says an expert at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
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)
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)
Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University, was a bookish man -- a scholar who knew, loved and collected books. Though the university's founder, Ezra Cornell, was not bookish, he appreciated the value and necessity of assembling a proper library for the students and faculty of the university that was to bear his name.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 13 and 14. The board of trustees will meet from 9 a.m. to noon and again from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 14, in the Marriott Amphitheater of the Statler Hotel.
Achieving genuine diversity -- both of race and class -- remains one of the major challenges in the field of higher education in the 21st century. That challenge was addressed from a variety of perspectives during a powerhouse symposium in July that featured five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar. (Aug. 11, 2005)
Worried parents with greedy kids may now have the ultimate role model: subterranean Africa's naked mole-rats that can't wait to share newly-discovered food sources with their kin.