Stephen Kresovich, professor of plant breeding and director of the Institute for Genomic Diversity at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at Schoellkopf Stadium at 11 a.m. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will present an address at Senior Convocation.
Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium.
Regulations on law and government policies regarding the Internet will be examined by law professors, attorneys, a representative of America Online and the president of Morality in Media at a symposium on April 12.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- No longer the "me generation," American engineering students are actively taking on some of the world's toughest problems. A Cornell University-based national engineering service organization will bring stories of students and professional engineers working to improve the lot of some of the world's poorest communities, many in the developing world, to New York City next week. The group, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), will host students and supporters from across the United States at the Mezzanine Conference Room, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, at 5:30 p.m. May 12. The event, which will be both fund-raiser and a call for volunteers, will feature students recently returned from Bosnia, South Africa and Nigeria describing their community-service engineering projects that have made a big difference in people's lives by enabling self-help, making the projects sustainable. (May 06, 2004)
In the wake of the nanoguitar, now there are 287,900 nanosaxophones. The tiny instrument images, carved on a silicon chip by engineers at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, together form a centimeter-square silhouette of President Bill Clinton playing his favorite musical instrument.
Christopher W. Clark, the engineer-biologist who heads the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell, has been named to the newly established Imogene Powers Johnson Senior Scientist chair at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
The Cornell Tradition was named the "Daily Point of Light" for May 29, by action of the Corporation for National Service, the Points of Light Foundation and the Knights of Columbus, which sponsor the awards.
Spring is arriving up to a week earlier than it did 40 years ago in response to a warming trend in the U.S. Northeast, Cornell University researchers are reporting. They base their conclusion on a study of historical bloom-date records for lilacs, apples and grapes, which suggests that nature's calendar is changing due to an increase in greenhouse gases. In one of the first documented cases that plants in the Northeast are responding to climate change, the Cornell scientists and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin say that lilacs are blooming about four days earlier, and apples and grapes six to eight days earlier, than in 1965. The findings in the study -- the first to encompass the U.S. Northeast -- are consistent with similar reports in other regions of the United States and in Europe. (December 13, 2004)