Stephen F. Hamilton, professor of human development and co-director of Cornell University's Family Life Development Center, has been named associate provost for outreach, Provost Biddy Martin announced Nov. 5. Hamilton was appointed to a three-year term beginning Nov. 1. The new part-time position of associate provost for outreach was recommended by the university's Land Grant Mission Review Task Force last spring, a year after five panels began reviewing Cornell's land-grant mission. The part-time position will allow Hamilton to continue his other academic responsibilities. (November 11, 2003)
A Cornell program has shown that rice yields can be hugely increased through simple changes in how plants, soil, water and nutrients are managed. The program has drawn attention worldwide and is now on the short list of a $1 million sustainability prize.
Many of the Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
Among the many members of the extended Cornell community, trustees, alumni and friends who will be participating in the inauguration ceremonies for President David Skorton, four will play a particularly visible role. They are…
On April 15, a workshop for nonprofit groups organized by Michelle M. Thompson, a visiting lecturer in Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning, took place at Albert R. Mann Library.
Without enough estrogen-like hormone in their systems, female plainfin midshipman fish turn a deaf ear to the alluring love songs of the males. And, according to Cornell biologists, a similar steroid-sensitive response could underlie changes in the hearing sensitivity of humans.
On Monday morning, July 10, David Skorton's Day Hall office was nearly bare: clean white walls, empty bookshelves, subdued olive and beige furniture and the light smell of fresh paint. Just a few personal touches had crept in --…
Cornell is sponsoring a regional conference to foster new farm-to-school links and to strengthen networks among farmers, school dining-service buyers, processors, distributors, educators and policy-makers. The conference, Farm-to-School Cafeteria: Partnerships for Improving Health, Supporting Farms and Building Community.
Events on campus this week include a poetry reading by Julia Alvarez, the Johnson Museum's Tarjama/Translation exhibit, Cornell Campus Club coffee hour and flood relief in Pakistan and India. (Sept. 2, 2010)
Terrence Fine, Cornell professor of electrical engineering and statistical science, has been named director of Cornell's Center for Applied Mathematics.