Mexican President Vicente Fox on Nov. 24 presented Mexico's most prestigious youth award, the Premio Nacional de Juventud (National Youth Prize), to Gerardo Chowell-Puente, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, for his research in the mathematical modeling of communication in networks, which has provided new understanding of the way disease spreads through a population. In recent work as a visiting research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chowell-Puente and his Los Alamos colleagues modeled the transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong, Singapore and Ontario, Canada. The work validated the decision of Canadian health authorities to intervene with strict quarantines. Without that intervention, the model showed, the disease might have spread to some 200,000 people, instead of the few hundred who were infected. (November 26, 2003)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2000 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 27 through Jan. 29.
After a four-year renovation project, the original Mann Library building has reopened with more room to study and state-of-the-art amenities complementing its vintage Art Deco architecture. (Aug. 29, 2007)
Francis A. Kallfelz, D.V.M., has been appointed a James Law Professor of Medicine at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. His appointment was approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees at its March meeting.
"I've never done one particular track, and I've always followed whatever I love and loved whatever I've done," said Cornell University Dean of Human Ecology Lisa Staiano-Coico at an April 5 panel discussion, "Women in Medicine…
Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.
Researchers at Cornell are recipients of the first round of seed money that promises to turn research discoveries into marketable products. Two examples: the world's first hand-held sprayer for concentrated pesticides and microbe…
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 13 and 14. The board of trustees will meet from 9 a.m. to noon and again from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 14, in the Marriott Amphitheater of the Statler Hotel.
Provost Kent Fuchs and deans Lance Collins and Daniel Huttenlocher answer questions about why Cornell is the right choice for developing a New York City technology campus.
A conversation with architect and alumnus Richard Meier about the design of Weill Hall in relation to the campus and designing a building to meet the needs of its users. (Oct. 10, 2008)