Top honors in university fund raising, alumni relations and magazine writing were among 15 national awards won by development and communications professionals at Cornell from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) this year.
Perfect weather -- temperatures in the 60s, the lightest of breezes and blue skies with postcard-perfect clouds -- graced Cornell University's 137th Commencement May 29, as about 5,600 graduates assembled on the Arts Quad for the academic procession to Schoellkopf Stadium.
Cornell has been selected by NASA to provide the scientific instruments and lead the science team for the next mission to the surface of Mars. The space agency announced today that a rover mission will be launched on June 4, 2003, and the spacecraft will land on Mars on Jan. 20, 2004.
Katy Kaufman and her biology and physical science teacher Pam Vaughan from the town of Fordyce High School in Arkansas will set up a tent with displays about comets at the annual Fordyce on the Cottonbelt Festival.
The home of Displaced Homemakers of Tompkins County is one of several older residences on Tioga Street. Thanks to a Cornell sophomore class project, however, the building soon will have all new signs and detailed plans for a facelift, inside and out.
An unusual type of eye - resembling a tiny raspberry and possibly following a design principle that vanished with the extinction of trilobites hundreds of millions of years ago - lives today in a parasitic insect.
Terry Plater is the new associate dean for academic affairs in Cornell's Graduate School. She assumed her position in January 1999, succeeding Eleanor Reynolds, who retired in the fall 1998 semester.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 16, for Cornell's 53rd annual Trustee-Council meeting and the inauguration of the university's 11th president, Jeffrey S. Lehman. The meeting of the more-than-700-member council and a quarterly meeting of the board of trustees is scheduled on campus every fall so that the groups can attend joint sessions and hear the Cornell president's State of the University Address. The council is an advisory body made up of alumni and friends of the university who are elected by the trustees. (October 09, 2003)
Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or habitat. In other words, biologists can now reasonably estimate how much biomass is underground just by looking at the stems and leaves above ground. Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate to root biomass across the vast spectrum of land plants. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Arizona spent two years poring over data for a vast array of plants -- from weeds to bushes to trees -- in order to derive mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. (February 19, 2002)
The complete genome sequence of a leading bacterial plant pathogen offers new ways to stave off agricultural loss and perhaps foil animal or human infection, says a Cornell University researcher. According to Alan Collmer, Cornell professor of plant pathology, the sequencing (that is, determining the base sequence of each of the ordered DNA fragments in the genome) could help farmers repress tomato speck and other plant diseases. Medical researchers could be aided in comparing a related bacterium that causes fatal lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. And environmentalists could be provided with a new tool in understanding how another related bacterium can live in soil and dine on toxic waste. (August 19, 2003)