Porus Olpadwala, a city planning professor at Cornell University, has accepted the deanship of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He had been interim dean of the college since July 1998.
Cornell has moved into the top leagues of undergraduate environmental research with the dedication of a $927,000 laboratory in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
About 500 people – alumni, friends, students and faculty at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell are taking part in the official grand opening of the Robert A. and Jan M. Beck Center addition to Statler Hall.
President Jeffrey Lehman will cut the red ribbon that marks the official grand reopening of the renovated School of Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center, Research and Extension Buildings Oct. 15.
A low-tech idea for a healthy and delicious fast-food snack took first place, and an award of $10,000, in a Cornell University contest for the best business idea. The winning concept is Johnny Applestix -- sliced-to-order sticks of fresh apples lightly fried in canola oil, tossed in a secret blend seasoned with cinnamon and sugar, then served with the customer's choice of a vanilla or a caramel dipping sauce. It was developed by Mark Kuperman and Anthony Dellamano, both second-year students in the master's of management in hospitality program at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. They hope eventually to market their product in malls, ballparks, airports and other high-traffic areas across the United States. (April 4, 2003)
Students from the top U.S. business schools will compete in the first-ever MBA Stock Pitch Competition this April 3 and 4 at Cornell. The competition for future stock analysts is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. It takes place at the Johnson School's Parker Center for Investment Research in Sage Hall in the center of campus. The competition will provide a platform for students to showcase their stock picking and presentation skills, considered an important part of an analyst's job in the investment industry. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team, an award of $1,500. (March 27, 2003)
Cornell University will be awarded up to $124 million over the next five years by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research at the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP) and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), a national user facility. Of the award, approximately $99 million already approved by the National Science Board, the NSF's policy body, would go to LEPP. Up to $25 million, recommended by NSF program managers, would go to CHESS, with $2.44 million of this amount funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute for General Medical Sciences. Both research facilities share use of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), the university's high-energy particle accelerator. (March 11, 2003)
Adults who amuse infants with sleight-of-hand foolery – a rolling ball that disappears, then reappears, for example – should enjoy a childhood learning moment while it lasts.
George Gibian, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian Literature and Comparative Literature, was still an active member of the Cornell faculty when he died at home in October 1999. In April, former students and colleagues will honor Gibian's memory with a conference.
The biological applications of engineering, or bioengineering, is the topic of the 1997 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 10-12 at Cornell.