Charles J. Arntzen, president emeritus of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research Inc. was named Dec. 13 to President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The Community Partnership Board on Dec. 2 awarded more than $20,000 in grant monies to Cornell University-student-initiated, grassroots service-learning projects.
Laurence Senelick, the Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University, is the winner of the 2000-01 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for his book The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (Routledge 2000).
Jeffrey J. Doyle, Cornell University professor of plant biology and the Hays and James Clark Director of the Office of Undergraduate Biology, has been appointed the new chair of Cornell's Health Careers Program Advisory Board (HCPAB).
The Big Red Venture Fund, a venture capital group operated entirely by students of Cornell's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, has made its first investment in a biotechnology company founded by a student and an alumna.
Joshua Goldman, a senior majoring in physics at Cornell University, is one of 40 student winners nationwide of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for two years of study in the United Kingdom.
Despite the huge loss of life and the massive damage caused by the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, the utility systems beneath the buildings 'held up remarkably well,' a Cornell engineer with wide experience in investigating disasters reports.
Allegra Angus, a senior at Cornell with a dual major in mathematics and computer science, has been selected as one of two winners nationwide, of the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2002.
A new mechanism for cell survival and cell death -- a paradigm describing the regulation of the growth factors called neurotrophins -- has been discovered by scientists in the Division of Hematology-Oncology of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
If you're dreaming of a white Christmas in the Northeast, keep dreaming. For this holiday season, the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell has completely revised its annual white Christmas probability statistics.