Thomas C. Keane, acting director of financial aid and student employment at Cornell University, has been named director effective July 1, announced Donald A. Saleh, dean of admissions and financial aid. Keane, who joined Cornell in 1983, has been acting director since July 1994, succeeding Saleh in that position. Keane.
Children in elementary schools may be placed at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for musculoskeletal development, according to a Cornell University study.
Michel Camdessus, former managing director and chairman of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund, will be the 2001 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, April 9 and 10.
If you want to see what computers will be doing for us tomorrow, take a look at what students are doing with them today. BOOM, or Bits On Our Minds, is an annual show organized by the Cornell University Department of Computer Science and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but which involves students from all over the campus displaying their computing projects. The fifth annual show will take up parts of three floors of Upson Hall from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6. The students will be on hand to explain their work, and many exhibits will include interactive displays. (February 25, 2002)
Carol Clark Tatkon, a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees since 1981 and vice chair since 1995, died Oct. 11 at her family home in North Egremont, Mass. She was 59.
On April 14, Armstrong, a former Catholic nun who has written numerous books on religion, presented this year's Frederick C. Wood Lecture in Sage Chapel as part of the 75th anniversary of Cornell United Religious Work.
Cell membranes -- the sacs encompassing the body's living matter -- can assume a variety of shapes as they morph to engulf materials, expel others and assemble themselves into tissues. In the past it was possible for theoreticians only to analyze the thermodynamic forces behind membrane shape-shifting. But now a team of biophysicists from Cornell University, the National Institutes of Health and the W.M. Keck Foundation has been able to watch the sacs, or vesicles, reshaping themselves under the light of multiphoton three-dimensional microscopy. The forces behind the membrane morphing, the researchers say, is akin to a party entertainer shaping balloon animals by tensioning the surfaces. (October 21, 2003)
The Cornell University Glee Club will perform two concerts in the Los Angeles Area on Jan. 15 and 16. The 60-member male choir directed by Scott Tucker will be in the midst of a two-week tour of the West Coast.
Surfing the Web or spinning your own Web site? Millions are, but you're probably not evaluating your site to see what effects it has or using your Web site to evaluate your Web site.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Judith Surkis, a graduate student in the Department of History at Cornell University, has received a Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most respected academic honorary society. The fellowship was established by a former Cornell graduate student, Isabelle Stone, who received a Ph.D. in Greek history and language in 1908 and named the award in honor of her mother. The fellowship has been given annually since 1939 to women ages 25-35 who hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. Recipients, who need not be affiliated with Cornell or Phi Beta Kappa, receive a $10,000 stipend to conduct original research in Greece or France.