U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
Two undergraduates have won Udall Scholarship. They are Shoshannah Lenski, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Lena Samsonenko, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Trying to lose weight, be less nervous when speaking publicly or improve in some other way? One strategy that can help is to switch your point of view from the first-person to a third-person perspective when reviewing your progress.
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman has accepted the resignation of Inge Reichenbach as Cornell's Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development.
In what could prove to be an important development in the search for a treatment of Alzheimer's disease, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists say the results of an initial (Phase I) clinical study provide encouraging results.
Cornell Police will soon be driving home an important safety message: Buckle your seat belt or get a ticket. From April 18 through April 22, Cornell Police will be bringing the fourth annual "Click It or Ticket" campaign back to campus.
U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell professor of physics, will share in the 2005 Fritz London Memorial Prize, considered the highest award in the field of low-temperature physics. Since the prize was inaugurated in 1957, nine winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. (April 14, 2005)
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)
The only airline not singing the blues these days may be JetBlue Airways, according to industry leaders on the "Flying High for Years to Come" panel at the 80th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) April 8, 2005.