Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell University assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers. The fellowship will support research in Coates' laboratory directed toward the discovery of catalysts for the synthesis of biodegradable polymers from bio-renewable resources, such as carbon dioxide.
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Frank DiSalvo has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, one of 29 such national centers supported by the National Science Foundation.
Cesar Munera, 18, a Cornell University freshman, of Stamford, Conn., is in Cayuga Medical Center in critical condition following a fall from the window of his campus room in Mary Donlon Hall, Friday, Oct. 6. Cornell Police is investigating the incident.
Cornell University appointed the principal officers for eCornell, the university's new distance learning subsidiary, according to an announcement by Peter C. Meinig, chairman of the board of directors of eCornell.
Psychotherapist Alyce Faye Cleese will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Family Life Development Center at Cornell on Oct. 13, noon-1 p.m. at the Faculty Commons, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Actor-comedian-writer John Cleese will make his second appearance at Cornell University in his role as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large and will present a screening of Monty Python's "Life of Brian" followed by a public lecture Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
On Oct 6, following a month-long investigation into an alleged assault in the parking lot of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at 109 McGraw Place, Cornell Police arrested a Cornell student on a charge of second-degree assault, a class D felony.
New York's northern tier and the northern parts of New England could see snow on Saturday and Sunday. But the wet white stuff may not accumulate enough to qualify as the earliest snow in the region, according to climatologists at Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center.