Porus Olpadwala, professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP), has been named interim dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning effective July 1.
Preventing the "freshman 15" and perhaps even the national obesity epidemic could be as simple as stepping on a scale every morning or getting a little info about big portions in all-you-can-eat dining halls, according to two new studies by David Levitsky at Cornell University. (November 22, 2005)
Benjamin Widom, Cornell University Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, is honored with a special issue of the journal Molecular Physics. (November 15, 2005)
The most detailed analysis to date of how humans differ from one another at the DNA level shows strong evidence that natural selection has shaped the recent evolution of our species, according to researchers from Cornell University, Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics.
Cornell and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have signed an agreement committing the two institutions to collaborate on the planning for a 25-meter infrared telescope high in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
Sociologist Robert B. McGinnis, founder and first director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research and a pioneer in applying mathematical principles to quantitative social analysis, died Feb. 22 in Ithaca. He was 73.
Three graduate students in the Department of Physics at Cornell University are among six U.S. students who have been selected to spend the summer doing research at leading European Union (EU) laboratories. The students, Joseph Choi, Luke Donev and Daniel Graham, are being sent in an inaugural test research-training program connecting U.S. research centers with labs in the EU. The program has been developed by Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at the suggestion of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research. The program was spearheaded by Albert Sievers, Cornell professor of experimental condensed matter physics. (April 30, 2002)
Four Cornell University space scientists are on five of the eight teams that will begin planning the science program for NASA's next Mars rover mission, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), scheduled for launch in 2009. The space agency has chosen the eight proposals to provide instrumentation and associated science investigations for the mission, which is intended to explore a local region as a potential habitat for past or present life. (December 21, 2004)
The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Cornell. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics, in cooperation with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management.
Cornell's Mann Library will soon give agriculture researchers and students in developing countries access to a wealth of technical information they need to increase food production.