A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
Up to 4,000 people of all ages are expected in Ithaca this summer to indulge in the smorgasbord of classes, conferences and other programs that makes Cornell one of the nation's hottest destinations for summer study. The theme of Cornell Summer Sessions '97, "Language: Communication and Understanding," was chosen to coincide with a major six-week linguistics institute being hosted at Cornell for the first time.
Cornell has a prominent share in two Nobel prizes announced this week. Roderick MacKinnon, a visiting researcher at Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Robert Engle, a Cornell graduate, M.S., physics, '66, Ph.D., economics, '69, was co-winner of the Nobel in economics. A total of 29 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or alumni. (October 09, 2003)
"Human Natures: Genes, Culture and the Human Prospect" is the topic for Stanford University biologist Paul R. Ehrlich in a public lecture Wednesday, April 25, at 4:45 p.m. in Cornell's Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.
Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art acquired more than $4 million worth of fine art for its permanent collection this past year through gifts and purchases, says Franklin Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the museum. "Our recent acquisitions have been truly extraordinary," said Robinson. "A lot of people don't realize that our collections are growing all the time and that the museum is so dynamic -- in large part thanks to the generosity of alumni donors, other gifts and through the work of our museum advisory council." (February 28, 2002)
George T. Milkovich, the Martin P. Catherwood Professor in the human resource department at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. Milkovich was one of nine individuals elected a Class of 1996 Fellow.
Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or habitat. In other words, biologists can now reasonably estimate how much biomass is underground just by looking at the stems and leaves above ground. Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate to root biomass across the vast spectrum of land plants. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Arizona spent two years poring over data for a vast array of plants -- from weeds to bushes to trees -- in order to derive mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. (February 19, 2002)
While radio station traffic reporters track the annual migration patterns of Thanksgiving holiday celebrants, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean - off the western coast of South America - there are some leatherback turtles who have just begun to share their traffic information.
When it comes to managing local deer that munch foliage and crunch fenders, Cayuga Heights residents want to keep the decision-making local, according to a survey by Cornell's natural-resources experts.
Experts with a wide variety of perspectives at an April 1-2 conference at Cornell will attempt to answer the question: Who should rightfully profit from biotechnology's exploitation of the "intellectual property" of nature?