Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings announced today a series of administrative changes designed to strengthen the primacy of the academic mission of the university and streamline its central reporting structures.
It would be easy to sum up Harold D. "Hal" Craft's career at Cornell as a series of building and facilities projects. During his 34 years here, he has led close to $1 billion in campus construction, from the Sage Hall renovation to Lake Source Cooling. But as Craft enters retirement and looks back at his three decades at Cornell, he doesn't talk about buildings or projects, business matters or finance. He talks about people.
Reminder to tiger beetles: If you chase prey at high speeds, you'll go blind. Entomologists have long noticed that tiger beetles stop-and-go in their pursuit of prey. But until now, scientists have had no idea why this type of beetle attacks its food in fits and starts.
Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honored 37 Cornell undergraduate students this week, while also honoring the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.
A new strategy to genetically engineer rice and other crops to make them more tolerant of drought, salt and temperature stresses, while improving their yields, is being reported by molecular biologists at Cornell.
Two of 60 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, announced last week by the White House, will go to Cornell faculty members: Linda K. Nozick, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and Patrick J. Stover, assistant professor of nutritional biochemistry.
The Cornell University administration has announced its decision to decommission the TRIGA Mark II nuclear reactor and to phase out activities at the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, where the reactor is housed.