The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on May 24 and 25. The full board will convene at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, in the Hans Bethe Seminar Room, 700 Clark Hall.
Through research, coursework, fellowships, leadership initiatives, business incubators, community outreach, business plan competitions and more, an evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem has emerged at Cornell.
It may sound funny, but it's true. John Cleese, British writer-comedian-actor and former rector of St. Andrews University in Scotland, will make two public appearances as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large during his first official visit to the Cornell.
A gene enabling an insect virus to enter new cells was likely stolen from a host cell and adapted for the virus's use, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute report.
Mark Bain, an aquatic biologist and associate professor of natural resources at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Center for the Environment (CfE). Effective Feb. 24,. Bain succeeds Acting Director Max Pfeffer, professor of rural sociology, who was named associate director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station in 2001. Announcing the appointment, Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said: "Mark brings to the Center for the Environment a fresh perspective on the integration of research, education and outreach that our college endorses and values. His extensive knowledge of environmental policies and issues are essential for the promotion of a sustainable relationship between the environment and a quality life for people here and around the world." (February 24, 2003)
At its seventh annual convocation, March 1, The Cornell Tradition awarded its first annual Cornell Tradition Community Recognition Award to Ithacan Mimi Melegrito. The Cornell Tradition is an alumni-endowed fellowship program at Cornell University that recognizes and rewards outstanding students dedicated to work, service and scholarship. This past fall, the Student Advisory Council of Cornell Tradition created the new award to recognize and honor an Ithaca area person who has demonstrated a strong commitment to community service and/or leadership. An awards committee solicited nominations from community agencies of candidates who exemplify the Cornell Tradition ideal of improving their community through dedication to service. In December, a selection committee composed of members from both the Cornell and Ithaca communities evaluated all of the nominations and selected Melegrito as the first recipient of the Cornell Tradition Community Recognition Award. (March 18, 2002)
James Yee told a campus audience April 5 of the human rights violations at Guantanamo prison and of his arrest and release documented in his book, 'For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.' (April 6, 2007)
Publication in the journal Nature is a coup for any research team, but Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have earned recognition in the journal four times in recent months with landmark findings.
An unprecedented collaboration among a drug company, a university and conservationists will result in a search for new medicinal compounds that might be contained in fungi on a nature preserve in upstate New York. It will be the first survey of its kind in a temperate zone habitat.