Food scientist Martin Wiedmann is collaborating with 3M to test a new molecular diagnostic system that could cut pathogen detection times from 72 hours to just 18 hours.
Forty students in Cornell Wind Ensembles performed concerts, led workshops for high school musicians and gave instruments to two schools on a service-learning trip to Washington, D.C.
They are Brian Crane (chemistry and chemical biology), Gary Evans (design and environmental analysis and human development) and Natalie Mahowald (atmospheric sciences).
If you are still sore about last week's United States quarterfinal loss to Germany in World Cup soccer in South Korea, don't be. On June 23 on behalf of Americans everywhere, Cornell students got revenge, beating the Freie Universität (FU) Fighters of Berlin, 7-3.
S. Kay Obendorf, who retired in June after 50 years at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology, was honored Sept. 8 with the unveiling of a quarter-scale model of “PolyForm,” an architectural art installation by Jenny Sabin at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
The six-month search for Cornell University's 12th president has ended with the announcement that David J. Skorton, president of the University of Iowa.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University researchers have won Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1996. They are among 158 artists, scholars and scientists from among 2,791 applicants to be chosen for the honor. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awarded $4.5 million in research funds this year. Fellows are chosen on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The Cornell faculty members are: P. Andrew Karplus, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, G. Peter Lepage, professor of physics, for numerical methods in low-energy strong interaction physics, and Stephen A. Vavasis, associate professor of computer science, for geometry in scientific computing.
Events this week include: Cornell Cinema movies; Spring Garden sale, bike race, games designs, higher education in Africa, Mayfest music, Cornell Prison Education Program and wildflowers.