How can a veterinary college get more qualified minority students interested in veterinary science and biomedical research? How about offering high school students a summer to work on laboratory research with a faculty mentor, as well as an opportunity to sample the wide array of activities in Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine?
Cities throughout the Northeast have enjoyed one of the coolest Julys on record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. New York City never saw an official high temperature in July above 89 degrees at Central Park – for the entire month – the first time that has happened in 107 years.
Computer Policy and Law Conference at Cornell Aug. 6-8 will help educators deal with cyberspace issues. How much freedom should an educational institution give its students to use cyberspace?
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Fifteen undergraduate students from across the country arrived in Ithaca, N.Y., on June 2 to begin a summer of research at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC). The Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR), in its seventh year, is offering students the opportunity to pursue a computational science research project at Cornell University. SPUR is funded by the National Science Foundation through its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Through a competitive process, these students were selected from colleges and universities across the nation to come to Cornell during the summer to work on a specific research project under the guidance of a Cornell faculty or staff member. CTC staff members are teaching the students how to use CTC's high-performance computing resources, and they are providing consulting assistance throughout the program. spurs.ltb.html
The Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University, the largest academic unit in the United States devoted to the study of and training in human nutrition, has become home to two international centers.
Robert G. Bland takes eight cards from a deck, ace through 8, and makes a perfect shuffle -- taking the bottom four cards and interweaving them with the other four. By doing so three times, he returns the cards to their original order. "Students are always surprised at this. It provides a good example to introduce the notion of a 'directed graph,' something of considerable interest in many of the mathematical sciences.
The latest findings on diagnosis, prevention and treatment of canine hip dysplasia, the crippling joint disease that affects about 50 percent of some larger breeds of dogs, will be presented when veterinary researchers and practitioners gather Aug. 3-6 for an international symposium at Cornell.
New findings about the life-long consequences of sub-optimal development during and after pregnancy will be reported at an international symposium, "Frontiers in Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Health: Programming for a Lifetime of Good Health," Aug. 9-12.
Although the residents of New York City share as much concern for the environment as their upstate neighbors, 20 percent of city residents do not know where their water originates, and four out of five New York City residents have confidence in the safety of the city's tap water, according to the preliminary results of a survey by two Cornell experts.
The Executive Committee of the State University of New York Board of Trustees, meeting in Buffalo on Monday, July 22, approved a 1996-97 financial plan that allocates $120,418,200 in state appropriations to Cornell University's four statutory colleges. That allocation represents a shortfall of $2.4 million from the $122.8 million level required to support base-level programs plus cover the increased costs of operations, according to Nathan Fawcett, director of statutory college affairs at Cornell.