Cornell Executive Vice President Stephen Golding discussed his findings from six months of meetings around the university at the Executive Vice President Leadership Forum, Oct. 25. Speaking to vice presidents, directors and other leaders, Golding presented short- and long-range goals to improve administrative services. (November 02, 2005)
Cornell President David Skorton welcomed new students and their families to the 'worldwide Cornell family' in a convocation ceremony Aug. 23 in Shoellkopf Stadium. (Aug. 25, 2008)
Paul L. Houston, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been appointed senior associate dean in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Corporate law faculty across the United States have joined in support of a rule recently proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would make lawyers involved in executing corporate transactions more accountable for addressing client fraud.
George Malliaras, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been named the L.B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility, and Don Tennant of Lucent Technologies will be director of operations.
Natural solutions to human diseases, from Alzheimer's to cancers, might lie within the genomes of whales, bats and other mammals, a leading genetic researcher believes. Treatments, from drugs to therapies, might result from mapping the thousands of mammalian genomes.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for the Cornell IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems. The new award of $3,338,800 will provide two-year graduate fellowships of $27,500 a year for 30 students over the next five years, beginning with 12 new students in the fall of 2004. The funds also will provide computer services and general support for the program offices. This is an extension of a previous five-year program launched in 1998. IGERT is NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program for training a diverse group of scientists and engineers to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. More than 100 programs at doctorate-granting institutions are involved, including a second IGERT program at Cornell in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity. (December 5, 2003)
Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents.
Women and Hispanics are less likely to be diagnosed with or treated for vascular disease, a leading cause of debilitation and death among the elderly, according to two Weill Cornell studies. (Dec. 5, 2007)
A study by a team of Cornell professors estimates that Tompkins County could reduce its contribution to global warming by two-thirds by better managing existing technologies and investing in proven renewable energy sources. (Dec. 4, 2007)