BALTIMORE -- Carl Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, today (Feb. 10) received the 1995 AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has reached a milestone in disseminating information to the developing world: It has sold its 50th 'library in a box,' a full set of scientific journals packed onto 296 CD-ROMs. Distribution began in 1999.
Steve Squyres, Cornell professor of astronomy and the principal scientific investigator for the Mars rover mission, took a break from his hectic schedule this July to talk to Cornell News Service Senior Science Editor David Brand about the progress of the history-making mission.
Disease is increasing among most kinds of marine organisms, according to a long-term study by Jessica Ward of Cornell University and Kevin Lafferty of the U.S. Geological Survey. The study, conducted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, Calif., found that fish are no exception to the troubling trend, despite fewer reports of fish disease over the years. An analysis by Ward and Lafferty of hundreds of previous studies of marine-ecosystem disease is published this month in the journal Public Library of Science Biology . The report finds the rate of disease increasing in some taxa, such as in turtles, mammals, mollusks and urchins, but declining in fish.
July 26 is the 10th anniversary of the part of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that prohibits job discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities.
Stanley Hoffmann, the Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard University, will give a lecture titled "France and Europe" at Cornell Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Donald P. Gregg, U.S. ambassador to Korea (1989-93) during the George H.W. Bush administration and chairman of the Korea Society, will deliver the 2004 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell.
"The born-to-dechlorinate bug" is what Cornell researchers called Dehalococcoides ethenogenes Strain 195 when they found the bacterium obligingly detoxifying the pollutant PCE, or perchloroethylene (a chlorinated solvent used for dry cleaning), in sludge from an Ithaca, N.Y., sewage treatment plant.
Cleaving the gloom of low, sodden skies that threatened to envelop seniors and their families gathered in the Schoellkopf Crescent, Martin Luther King III implored Cornell University's Class of 2006 to "rise up" and lead the…