Professor Emeritus Michael Latham was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the African Nutrition Graduate Students Network for 'improving nutrition in Africa.' (May 17, 2007)
Biologist W. Lee Kraus has received the Richard E. Weitzman Memorial Award, which recognizes an exceptionally promising young clinical or basic investigator for his or her independent scholarship. (May 17, 2007)
In early 1865, Ezra Cornell, as a wealthy senator in the New York Legislature, continued to lay the foundation for founding a new institution of higher learning. (May 17, 2007)
Karen Walters has been named assistant director of the Cornell Chronicle, effective July 1, it was announced last week by Tommy Bruce, vice president for university communications.
Close to 1,000 organ transplantation patients, donors and families reunited with their medical teams in New York City May 4 for a Circle for Life celebration. (May 17, 2007)
Professor Michael Kotlikoff, incoming dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses research, trends and the hospital for animals. (May 16, 2007)
The University of Colorado at Boulder and the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre have signed an interim agreement to join the CCAT consortium. (May 16, 2007)
Four research grants for women faculty at Cornell have been awarded for the first time through the new Cornell ADVANCE Center, which is dedicated to recruiting and retaining women in science and engineering. (May 16, 2007)
Design professor Jack Elliott has created an award-winning pendant lamp that uses its own aluminum waste shavings, or swarf, as the diffuser, embodying the 'green' principles of reducing, reusing and recycling. (May 16, 2007)
Student filmmakers' projects, varying from comedy to documentary, took shape over the past semester and were screened on campus recently. (May 16, 2007)