Carol Bellamy, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), will be the 2002 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, March 4 and 5. Bellamy, who most recently has been working on behalf of UNICEF with the children of war-torn Afghanistan, will present the Bartels Fellowship Lecture Monday, March 4, at 8 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall on campus. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held in the Statler foyer. (February 14, 2002)
Pinkham Notch, N.H., the starting point for many skiing and hiking trails on Mount Washington, has the best chance for a white Christmas in the Northeast – an all-but-guaranteed 96 percent. According to senior climatologist Keith Eggleston.
Cornell University's total research spending in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, rose by more than 12 percent compared with a year earlier, with expenditures at the university's Ithaca campus increasing by more than 10 percent.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $538,450 to the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University for the fourth phase of a long-term preservation project, called the National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature. This project will keep historically significant agricultural books and documents from being lost to natural decay. (January 9, 2003)
Cornell University officials announced today (Jan. 4) that the university and the Cornell Research Foundation have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, asserting that the Hewlett-Packard Company infringed, and continues to infringe, a patent issued in 1989 basically to protect a computer instruction processing technique created by Professor Emeritus H.C. Torng of Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The invention protected by the patent (U.S. patent No. 4,807,115) substantially accelerates a computer's processing speed. More specifically, the patent involves a technique for computer processors with multiple functional units that permits multiple instructions to be issued per machine cycle and out of program order, thereby substantially increasing the efficiency and speed of the processors. (January 4, 2002)
When Bill Vanneman '31 heard that the Class of 2000 was having trouble meeting expenses for its first reunion, he did not hesitate to lend a hand -- and a buck.
Alicia S. Torrey has been named director of the newly created Cornell Alumni-Student Mentoring Program in Cornell University's Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The Cornell Alumni-Student Mentoring Program (CASMP) is sponsored and funded by the Provost's Office, in conjunction with the offices of Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, Alumni Affairs, Minority Educational Affairs and Vice President for Student and Academic Services. (November 04, 2003)
Events on campus this week include Scottish singer Jean Redpath, CU Winds in concert, 'The Tempest' at Cornell Cinema and a public service lecture by Jane Coyne '88.
Cornell's Lake Source Cooling (LSC) project has been honored with a first-place American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technology Award.
Despite the efforts of food retailers and food-processing plant managers to maintain a clean, safe environment, strains of the deadly pathogen Listeria monocytogenes can persist for up to a year or longer, according to Cornell food scientists.