John L. Ford, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley dean of students at Cornell, has been selected as a 1998-99 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. The ACE Fellows Program provides in-depth, comprehensive leadership development for senior faculty and administrators in higher education.
When Thomas W. Simons Jr. participated in a Peace Studies Program seminar at Cornell University in 2002, he made such a powerful impression on students and faculty that it was only natural to invite him back to campus again as soon as possible. Now Simons, former United States Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan, has returned for a two-week visit as the first Provost's Visiting Professor at Cornell, and he will deliver a lecture titled "Islam, 9/11 and Iraq" Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall on campus. The talk is free and open to the public. (February 17, 2004)
Until now, there has been no way to sterilize human tissue. The potential for a product that can do the job is one reason MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management made a savvy investment pick in NovaSterilis, a start-up biotechnology company in Lansing, N.Y.
Cornell senior David L. Kaplan, of Swampscott, Mass., is the only Cornell student this year to win the prestigious Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship.
Cornell's vice provost for life sciences and professor of plant breeding and plant biology applies plant agriculture to human well-being while also overseeing the New Life Sciences Initiative.
Cornell announced Sept. 22 that the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has closed its investigation of a complaint alleging that the University maintains racially- and ethnically-segregated residence halls.
Author James Joyce will be well-received in the namesake of the original Ulysses' hometown, when more than 180 Joyce scholars from around the world gather at Cornell University starting Tuesday, June 14. "Return to Ithaca," the 2005 North American James Joyce Conference, will feature academic panels and papers on topics including censorship, language, psychoanalysis, sexuality, music, film, chaos theory and the literary significance of a cup of cocoa. The conference runs through June 18.
How can communication between physicians and their elderly patients be improved? How can community service agencies better help families with depressed older relatives? How can psychotherapy and physical therapy be united to help older adults suffering simultaneously from back pain and depression? A new center at Cornell University will address these kinds of problems with innovative applied research projects. The Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA) is funded with $1.9 million from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), one of four Edward R. Roybal Centers funded nationwide this year. A collaboration of the fields of social science, clinical research and mental health, the institute embraces social scientists from Cornell's Ithaca campus, research clinicians in geriatric medicine at the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan, and researchers at the Psychiatric Division of the Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry in Westchester County, N.Y. (December 5, 2003)