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.
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.
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.
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.
Contemporary composer Steve Reich -- pronounced WRY-sh -- is having a good year.
In addition to tributes at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Cornell alumnus, Class of '57, who turned 70 on Oct…
NEW YORK -- Biomedical microscopic imaging deep inside living tissue with unprecedented clarity could become routine and widely available with the signing of technology-transfer and collaborative-research agreements today (May 28, 2004) by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, a leading maker of microscopy instrumentation, and by CCTEC, the technology, enterprise and commercialization arm of Cornell University. The license for two-photon laser microscopy (also known as multiphoton microscopy, and protected by patents dating back to July 23, 1991) has been transferred from the British firm Bio-Rad Laboratories to Germany's Carl Zeiss. Both Bio-Rad and Carl Zeiss have been manufacturing confocal laser microscopes incorporating multiphoton technology. (May 28, 2004)
Displaced Tulane students came together for a whirlwind orientation meeting at Cornell Sept. 8, just a day and a half after most arrived in Ithaca after evacuating their New Orleans campus.