The Cornell University water system currently complies with all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drinking water standards, including the standards for haloacetic acids, based on May 2003 testing results, reports James Grieger of the university's Department of Environmental Health and Safety. The EPA maximum contamination limit for haloacetic acids is a rolling annual average (RAA) of 60 parts per billion (ppb). Cornell's current RAA is 49 ppb. The current quarterly average is 38 ppb. (June 09, 2003)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded nearly $600,000 to Arecibo Observatory and the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo to establish a three-year program to provide Hispanic students on the island with experience in conducting scientific research.
Researchers planning a feeding study at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine are looking for 60 clinically obese cats and some owners who can't say no.
Two members of the Cornell University Class of 1952 who were killed during military service in Vietnam will be honored at the rededication of the Korean/Vietnam War Memorial in the rotunda of Anabel Taylor Hall on the Cornell campus at 4:15 p.m. Friday, June 6.
Oscar Rothaus, a Cornell University professor of mathematics who, during the Cold War, helped develop a vital military mathematical tool that simulates physical processes, died in Ithaca on May 24. He was 75.
Sandy Berger, national security adviser for former President Bill Clinton, will deliver the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, June 6, at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall to Cornell University alumni and guests attending the university's annual Reunion weekend.
Hotel demand in large cities fluctuates more in response to personal income than to changes in hotel prices, according to a new study issued by the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research.
"Time and a Chair," an exhibit of historic photographs depicting ordinary Americans posing in chairs in remote parts of the country from 1840 to 1940, is on display until Aug. 29.
Archaeologists from the Binghamton University Public Archaeology Facility, hired by Cornell University to study the proposed site for new athletic fields off of Game Farm Road in the town of Ithaca, recently identified a handful of artifacts tied to the Early Woodland phase of the Finger Lakes' Paleo-Indian culture. Site inspections identified three small areas with prehistoric artifacts, and a projectile point, chert flakes and shatter were recovered. A Phase 2 site examination will focus on the areas where artifacts have been identified, and more test pits will be dug to determine the site's significance. A related report is expected to be completed in mid-June. (May 30, 2003)
Thomas O'Rourke illustrates the effects of the World Trade Center destruction with a quote from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: "The awful daring of a moment's surrender/ Which an age of prudence can never retract/ By this, and this only, we have existed." For O'Rourke, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor in Cornell's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the poet's words sum up the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001: a moment of unforeseen catastrophe that society will pay for with "an age of prudence." O'Rourke and Cornell colleagues have spent the past two years analyzing the impacts that brought down the twin towers. By studying this and other disasters, O'Rourke says, engineers will be able to give valuable advice to a society still struggling with how best to avoid future tragedies. (May 29, 2003)