So that future generations can enjoy New York's forests for the trees, Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources has received a $179,204 grant from the U.S. Forest Service to teach sustainable land stewardship to the state's small-forest owners. Cornell's Forestry Extension program will coordinate its program activities with the Division of Lands and Forests, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The money for the first year is contained in the Forest Land Enhancement Program (FLEP) in the federal 2002 Farm Bill, which appropriated $100 million, $645,000 of which went to New York. (October 09, 2003)
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 16, for Cornell's 53rd annual Trustee-Council meeting and the inauguration of the university's 11th president, Jeffrey S. Lehman. The meeting of the more-than-700-member council and a quarterly meeting of the board of trustees is scheduled on campus every fall so that the groups can attend joint sessions and hear the Cornell president's State of the University Address. The council is an advisory body made up of alumni and friends of the university who are elected by the trustees. (October 09, 2003)
Valerie Smith, director of African American Studies at Princeton University, will deliver a free public talk, "Memory and Civil Rights," Thursday, Oct. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 258 of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. Smith, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton, specializes in feminism, film studies and African-American and American expressive culture and visual culture. She is the author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings and Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative and the editor of Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, African American Writers and New Essays on Song of Solomon. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. (October 08, 2003)
NEW YORK -- To help display Cornell University's ongoing involvement with New York City and its residents, Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman, City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer (D--Sixth District), city parks officials and other dignitaries will take part in a ceremony at 531 Amsterdam Ave. (at 86th St.), Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. (October 08, 2003)
Three symposia featuring distinguished speakers in the arts and sciences will take place concurrently Thursday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m. on the Cornell University campus in honor of the inauguration of President Jeffrey S. Lehman. The public is invited to attend. o Richard Meier, one of the world's most influential architects, will speak on "The New Architecture of Optimism," in the Statler Hotel Auditorium. (October 07, 2003)
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman's Inauguration Day Oct. 16 in Ithaca will begin with a trip to the Tompkins County Public Library. The visit by Cornell's 11th president to the library in the heart of the city will highlight the historical and continuing connection between the university and the greater Ithaca community. Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, in what was the first of his many philanthropic enterprises, incorporated Ithaca's first free public library in 1864. Originally called the Cornell Library, the spacious atheneum was located on the corner of Seneca and Tioga streets and opened its doors to the public Dec. 20, 1866. The library served as the site of the university's first Inauguration Day, for President Andrew Dickson White, in a ceremony that also marked the formal dedication of the university on Oct. 7, 1868. (October 7, 2003)
In honor of the inauguration of the 11th president of Cornell University, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Cornell University Library will feature three special exhibits on campus, together titled "Legacy of Leadership: Cornell's Eleven Presidents." The exhibits, on display in the university's Olin, Kroch and Uris libraries from Oct. 13 through the end of the fall semester, will highlight the achievements of each of Cornell's presidents, through historical letters, documents and photographs. The displays also will include short histories of each Cornell inauguration ceremony. (October 7, 2003)
Over the next 100 years, the eastern United States will see more winter precipitation because atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing. But more precipitation does not necessarily mean more snow, according to Arthur T. DeGaetano, a Cornell climatologist who is one of several speakers at the symposium, Impacts of Climate Change on Horticulture, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. This symposium will focus on implications of climate change and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide for the important fruit, vegetable and ornamental horticulture industries, says David Wolfe, Cornell professor of horticulture and one of the symposium's organizers. The meeting will bring together climate scientists, horticultural researchers, extension educators, horticultural businesses, environmental and gardening groups, and representatives from public gardens. (October 03, 2003)
A $6.6 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will establish a new program at Cornell University's colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture and Life Sciences to study food- and waterborne diseases common to animals and humans. The new program is called the Zoonoses (pronounced "zoh-ah NO-sees") Research Unit. Scientists in the Cornell veterinary college's Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences department and the Cornell-based New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory will collaborate with researchers in several agriculture college sections, including the departments of Food Science and Biological and Environmental Engineering. (October 2, 2003)
ARECIBO, P.R. -- The smog-shrouded atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has been parted by Earth-based radar to reveal the first evidence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on its surface. The observations are reported by a Cornell University-led astronomy team working with the world's largest radio/radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory. The radar observations, reported in the journal Science on its Science Express Web site (Oct. 2, 2003), detected specular -- or mirrorlike -- glints from Titan with properties that are consistent with liquid hydrocarbon surfaces. Cornell astronomer Donald Campbell, who led the observation team, does not rule out that the reflections could be from very smooth solid surfaces. "The surface of Titan is one of the last unstudied parcels of real estate in the solar system, and we really know very little about it," he says. (October 1, 2003)