A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.
David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell University's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year. Duffield's honor is a highlight of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Celebration '96, which will be held April 25 and 26 on the Cornell campus. Duffield, who earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell in 1963 and 1964, respectively, will be the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel. Duffield will give a public lecture April 26 at 2 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall.
Members of the Cornell Wind Ensemble returned Jan. 21 from their nine-day tour of Costa Rica, where they performed for public and private audiences. The tour was a successful educational and service experience as well.
Watch some wine-tasters contemplate their choice and you might think flavors take forever to register in the brain. In fact, humans can make taste-dependent decisions after as little as 50 milliseconds (50 thousandths of a second) of tasting, research at Cornell is showing. That's a good thing, says sensory physiologist Bruce P. Halpern, Ph.D.
After a barn-burner semi-final match against Singapore, Cornell's Big Red team beat a tough German team to take first place in the Small Robots League in Robocup in Melbourne, Australia.
For many dairy cows, summertime living isn't easy. In the northeastern United States, heat stress can make the animals more susceptible to mastitis, laminitis and acidosis. It can also adversely affect the growth rates of unborn calves and reduce a cow's capacity to make milk by as much as one-third.
Fourteen high school students from Cesar Chavez Charter High School for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and a few of their parents, will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to meet with a group of urban planning students and their professors at Cornell.
Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations; Anthony Ingraffea, civil and environmental engineering; and Paul Sherman, neurobiology and behavior, are the 2005 recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. (November 09, 2005)
You have cheered baseball in a ballpark, watched football in a stadium and enjoyed basketball in a gymnasium. Now, for the first time in the United States, wrestling has its own house.