ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University researchers have won Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1996. They are among 158 artists, scholars and scientists from among 2,791 applicants to be chosen for the honor. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awarded $4.5 million in research funds this year. Fellows are chosen on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The Cornell faculty members are: P. Andrew Karplus, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, G. Peter Lepage, professor of physics, for numerical methods in low-energy strong interaction physics, and Stephen A. Vavasis, associate professor of computer science, for geometry in scientific computing.
Five members of the Cornell faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among the 283 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.
This is one student takeover that administrators don't mind. Students in the Cornell School of Hotel Administration will be given the keys to Cornell's Statler Hotel this weekend to operate the 150-room property on their own from April 19-21.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Karin Klapper couldn't be happier. The Cornell University senior has just learned that she will spend a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar. Klapper, a communication major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was one of 10 American and two Israelis awarded the prestigious scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to individuals, most of them graduating seniors, who have demonstrated leadership potential and provides them with full tuition and related costs for a year of study in the Hebrew University Visiting Graduate Program. The scholarship is named for Raoul Wallenberg, the Christian Swedish diplomat who risked his life to rescue Jews during World War II.
Earlier springs with warmer temperatures over the past 30 years have prompted a ubiquitous North American bird species, tree swallows, to begin laying eggs, on average, a week or more earlier.
Yao Yuan Sze, a retired Seattle aerospace engineer, has endowed the directorship of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell in honor of his father.
Top executives from Pixar, the animation studio that created "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters, Inc.," and other animation experts who, collectively, have won six Oscars, will be on the Cornell University campus, April 19-22, to meet with students interested in the digital arts. They will give four free public talks, one each day, as well as take part in small-group sessions with students in Professor Donald Greenberg's classes on art, animation and technology. The visit and talks are part of Digital Arts Graphics Week at Cornell and the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's Department of Architecture. Co-sponsors at Cornell are the Program of Computer Graphics, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and the Department of Architecture. (April 16, 2004)
Robert Moog, Cornell Ph.D. '64, whose name became synonymous with many forms of the music synthesizer he originally invented and manufactured in a Trumansburg, N.Y., storefront from 1964 to 1971, died Aug. 21. He was 71.
This fall, the Cornell Tradition is celebrating 20 years of rewarding excellence in undergraduate service, work and scholarship. Cornell University's alumni-supported recognition program awards 600 fellowships each year to undergraduate students based on their work experience, campus and/or community service, leadership and academic achievement. In 2000, the program was recognized as a Daily Point of Light by President George W. Bush's Points of Light Foundation. (September 10, 2002)
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Lani Guinier, whose nomination by President Clinton for the nation's top civil-rights post was derailed following allegations by conservative members of Congress and the media that she had a radical agenda and favored quotas, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell's Statler Hall Auditorium.