Cornell University has made substantial progress in its multi-year faculty improvement plan, with salaries for continuing faculty increasing 8.1 percent in 2001-02, compared with the university's overall goal of 8 percent, President Hunter Rawlings announced.
Thinking like military historians, limnologists at Cornell have documented the invasion by an exotic species Daphnia exillis in one of North America's dirtiest lakes.
For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
Native Americas, a journal published by Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, shared the top honor -- General Excellence -- with Tribal Colleges magazine in the Native American Journalists Association's annual awards, presented in Minneapolis June 20.
Cornell's mock trial team took first place in the Ivy League Invitational Mock Trial Tournament at Yale University on Nov. 13 and 14, beating a team from archrival Princeton in the fifth and final round.
The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Cornell. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics, in cooperation with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management.
Should hospitals be allowed to sell your blood to researchers? Should researchers be permitted to patent your genes without your consent? Those are among the compelling questions Lori B. Andrews will address Wednesday, April 10, when she delivers the second annual Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture at Cornell University Law School. The talk will be at 4 p.m. in the Stein Mancuso Amphitheater in Myron Taylor Hall on Cornell's campus. Admission is free and open to the general public. (April 2, 2002)
Experts from around the nation will gather at a Cornell University conference May 22 to explore how historical perspectives, current trends and public policies shape and affect United States farm labor and rural communities.
Cornell will maintain its support for a program undertaken by member universities of the Fair Labor Association to involve locally-based organizations in monitoring working conditions in apparel factories in third-world countries. In making the announcement, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.