Susanna Throop, a May 2000 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a 1996 graduate of Newfield High School, has been awarded the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Trust Scholarship inaugurated this year.
Cornell graduate student Ricky K. Soong has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 25-29. Soong was among 31 researchers working on DOE-funded research projects at U.S. universities, national laboratories and other federal facilities selected to attend the meeting, which will focus on physics.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 21. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, E. 44th St.
Russia is teetering on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the same virulent, fungal-like pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, more commonly called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine.
If professors at the southern end of one of upstate New York's Finger Lakes furtively check their computers, then cancel class and go sailing – blame and RUSS. Remote Underwater Sampling Station is the instrument package installed June 6 in Cayuga Lake, near the Cornell campus.
Instruments aboard a spacecraft that will be launched next year to explore two, and perhaps three or more, comets in the solar system will for the first time provide a "fingerprint" of the surface of cometary nuclei, giving the first firm evidence of the composition of the icy, rocky objects.
Ronald G. Crystal, M.D., professor of genetic medicine and director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, will be the opening speaker at a day-long media workshop, "Cancer Biology: From Research to Recovery," in New York City, June 21.
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, for a personal visit June 26-28.
Planners of the new Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where construction will begin this month in anticipation of a Winter 2002 opening, face a daunting challenge.