The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2002 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 24 through 26.
The Mind and Memory: Exploring Creativity in the Arts and Sciences course begins this month at Cornell and runs through April. This annual course, the brainchild of Cornell emeritus professor and author James McConkey.
Are America's hotels measuring their performance accurately? No, according to a recent Cornell University study, which shows that industry performance averages, commonly used by hotels throughout the United States, are not reliable as the only gauge of how hotels are doing. The study was conducted by Cathy A. Enz, Linda Canina and Kate Walsh, faculty members at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, under the aegis of the Hotel School's Center for Hospitality Research in alliance with Smith Travel Research, which supplied data from its database of name-brand hotels in the United States. (January 15, 2002)
D. Merrill Ewert, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), has been named president of Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, Calif. His appointment is effective July 1. Ewert joined the Cornell University faculty in 1991 as a professor in the Department of Education, where he taught, conducted research and implemented extension programs focused on community-based development. In April 1998, Ewert was appointed director of CCE and associate dean for outreach in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and in the College of Human Ecology. (January 15, 2002)
In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, Cornell University is offering a new course for the 2002 spring semester that will take a wide-ranging look at the issues of terrorism, religious warfare, global conflict and civil liberties. "This new course presents an opportunity to review and discuss issues concerning global development and its relationship to conflict and terrorism," says James E. Haldeman, senior associate director of International Programs in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and one of the class's organizers. (January 14, 2002)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- About 5,000 light years away across our Milky Way galaxy, a highly brilliant star called VY Canis Majoris has long been thought to have smoke in its eyes because most of its light is blacked out by a cloud. Now the mystery of this smoky shroud is partly unveiled. It turns out that the star appears to be blinded not by smoke but by sand and by whiskers, a form of iron. (January 9, 2002)
Cornell will be the home for a new Honeybee Genetics and Integrated Pest Management Center that will study the continuing threat from deadly parasitic mites and Africanized honeybees.
An international supermodel and an expert on eating disorders will lecture together at Cornell on the subject of normal/abnormal eating behavior and body image issues.
The Cornell University Glee Club, an internationally acclaimed 60-member male choir whose members are Cornell students, will give concerts at Elmira College's Gibson Theater, Elmira, N.Y., on Jan. 17 at 8 p.m., and at Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus in Ithaca on Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. The two concerts conclude a two-week tour of the southeastern United States, with performances in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. For ticket information and other concert details, see this web site: . (January 9, 2002) Turbulence and thick gas are clues to galactic evolution
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a huge river of primordial hydrogen flowing from the neighboring Magellanic Clouds into our own Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered the first evidence of turbulence and concluded that the invisible, hot mass of gas surrounding our galaxy is much thicker than physicists previously thought. Galactic turbulence, an ingredient in cosmic cloud and star formation, has never before been seen in starless areas of the cosmos. "What causes turbulence in a star-free cosmic stream is unclear, but this finding could be important in understanding the cosmic-cloud and star-formation processes," says Snezana Stanimirovic, an astronomer at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which is operated by Cornell University in a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. (January 7, 2002) Sanford I. Weill and Maurice R. Greenberg Give $150 Million to Weill Medical College
New York, N.Y. -- Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D., the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, announced today that Sanford I. Weill, chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc., and his wife, Joan, and Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), and his wife, Corinne, are giving $150 million to the medical college. Their gifts kick off Weill Cornell's $750 million Capital Campaign to advance and support its clinical mission. The launching of the campaign at the start of this new year reconfirms the Medical College's confidence in the resilience of the philanthropic community in the aftermath of the tragedy of September 11. (January 8, 2002) Annual Martin Luther King Day celebration at GIAC is Jan. 21
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany St., on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 21, from noon to 4:30 p.m. The program is free and open to all. The annual event will begin with a luncheon, a keynote speech and performances by local choirs. This year's keynote speaker is the Rev. Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work. Two hours of workshops will follow the luncheon, including an "Elders Speak-Out," children's workshops and a panel discussion on welfare reform. The program will conclude with dessert and additional performances by local choirs. (January 7, 2002) Haitian AIDS Center Establishing New Institute to Fight AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases
New York, NY (January 2, 2002) - GHESKIO -- a leading Haitian health facility dedicated since 1982 to research, services, and training in HIV/AIDS and other deadly infectious diseases -- observed World AIDS Day last December 1 by holding a gala with hundreds of guests to raise funds for a new Institute to replace its present, outgrown quarters. GHESKIO (Groupe Haitien d'Etudes du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes) is the second oldest institution in the world, after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dedicated to the fight against AIDS, and it has been in the forefront of many medical achievements.Its new and expanded Institute, to be constructed on a new site, will be known as the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health. Weill Cornell Researchers Describe the Immune Deficiency at Root of the Commonest Form of Type 1 Diabetes
New York, NY (January 2, 2002) -- An article just published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation -- by lead authors Drs. Noel Maclaren and Anjli Kukreja of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College -- sets out the results of an investigation into the immune defects of some 60 persons with immune-mediated diabetes, the most common form of type 1 diabetes. The study delineates precisely what predisposes a person to this condition, and the latest, best measures for diagnosis, prediction, and therapy. Above all, the authors suggest a new strategy for combatting the disease: stimulate rather than suppress the patient's immune system. Cornell sues Hewlett-Packard for patent infringement
Cornell University officials announced today (Jan. 4) that the university and the Cornell Research Foundation have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, asserting that the Hewlett-Packard Company infringed, and continues to infringe, a patent issued in 1989 basically to protect a computer instruction processing technique created by Professor Emeritus H.C. Torng of Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The invention protected by the patent (U.S. patent No. 4,807,115) substantially accelerates a computer's processing speed. More specifically, the patent involves a technique for computer processors with multiple functional units that permits multiple instructions to be issued per machine cycle and out of program order, thereby substantially increasing the efficiency and speed of the processors. (January 4, 2002)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a huge river of primordial hydrogen flowing from the neighboring Magellanic Clouds into our own Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered the first evidence of turbulence and concluded that the invisible, hot mass of gas surrounding our galaxy is much thicker than physicists previously thought. Galactic turbulence, an ingredient in cosmic cloud and star formation, has never before been seen in starless areas of the cosmos. "What causes turbulence in a star-free cosmic stream is unclear, but this finding could be important in understanding the cosmic-cloud and star-formation processes," says Snezana Stanimirovic, an astronomer at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which is operated by Cornell University in a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. (January 7, 2002)