The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) has awarded research grants to three faculty members and five graduate students to help advance the careers of women in academia through support of research leading to tenure and promotion and to the completion of dissertations.
The patenting of genes, or other scientific discoveries, need not interfere with the free exchange of information among scientists, and it is often the best way to bring the benefits of discoveries to the public, a Cornell University patent and licensing manager will tell Congress today (Thursday, July 13). James A. Severson, president of the Cornell Research Foundation, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Beth E. Clark, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Astronomy for the past three years, has been named by NASA to lead a research team for history's first asteroid sample return mission.
If professors at the southern end of one of upstate New York's Finger Lakes furtively check their computers, then cancel class and go sailing – blame and RUSS. Remote Underwater Sampling Station is the instrument package installed June 6 in Cayuga Lake, near the Cornell campus.
Old friends, familiar haunts and updated memories await more than 5,500 Cornell University alumni and guests returning to campus for the university's Reunion 1999 weekend, June 10-13.
All Randy Worobo, associate professor of food science and technology, ever wanted to do as a college student was to go back to the farming life of his childhood. Five miles from their nearest neighbor, the Worobo family calved 800 cattle each year and grew the grain they needed to feed them on their 12,000-acre ranch in rural Alberta, Canada. "My brother and I knew, though, that we couldn't stay on the farm," says Worobo, whose high school class consisted of just six students. "Our parents insisted that we go get a degree from a university -- not a college -- in anything, even basket weaving, to see that there's more to life than farming. After that, they said we could come back." (April 14, 2005)
Hollywood, the movie capital -- 'city of the modern gold rush' and 'a sinkhole of depraved venality' -- is a likely target for satire, especially for American playwright David Mamet.
Former ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "Back to the Future? Will This Century Be as Bloody as the Last?" Friday, June 9.
David Wolfe sees the forest for the trees ... and the earthworms for the soils, the prairie dogs for the grasslands and the Rhizobium for the nitrogen. In his first book, Tales From the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life.
Cornell University's East Asia Program is sponsoring a weekend of events on the Cornell campus called "Korea Peace Day: Voices of Modern Korea," Thursday, Nov. 6, through Saturday, Nov. 8. Events will include films, readings by two of Korea's leading contemporary authors, lectures and even a bit of comedy. All are free and open to the public. The Korean War ended with a cease-fire 50 years ago, more stalemate than peace accord, and recent tensions between the United States and North Korea threaten to reignite hostilities that have been smoldering since 1953. A nationwide coalition of scholars recently proposed Korea Peace Day as a time for open discussion of the current crisis and consideration of peaceful solutions to conflict in the region. Cornell's is among more than 25 college campuses sponsoring teach-ins, workshops, lectures, debates, films and cultural presentations as part of this effort. (October 30, 2003)