Two professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the team that will develop a new organization to manage the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) during the decade 2004-2014.
Bad things happen to good parents. In a new book, Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life, Professor James Garbarino and researcher Claire Bedard of Cornell help today's parents regain control of difficult children.
Edward J. Lawler, dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and a scholar of organizational behavior, is the recipient of the 2001 Cooley-Mead Award.
Temple Grandin, a Colorado State University assistant professor of animal science who studies the humane handling of agricultural animals, will give a Cornell Lecture Oct. 11.
Hotel room occupancy is up for the first time since the big drop following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration found that national hotel room occupancy is now rising.
Michael A. "Mike" Tanner, the quarterback who helped lead the Cornell Big Red football team to a winning record in 1979 and who led his high school football team to a New Jersey state parochial school championship, is among the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
The Cornell Political Forum is sponsoring 'Governing Divided Communities,' Thursday, Oct. 4, a discussion featuring James Perkins Jr., mayor of Selma, Ala., and Alan Cohen, mayor of Ithaca.
Astronomer Joe Veverka, chair of Cornell's Department of Astronomy, will celebrate his 60th birthday with a unique gift from his colleagues: a symposium, "Exploration of the Universe," to be held Oct. 4-6 on campus.