The Executive Committee of the State University of New York Board of Trustees, meeting in Buffalo on Monday, July 22, approved a 1996-97 financial plan that allocates $120,418,200 in state appropriations to Cornell University's four statutory colleges. That allocation represents a shortfall of $2.4 million from the $122.8 million level required to support base-level programs plus cover the increased costs of operations, according to Nathan Fawcett, director of statutory college affairs at Cornell.
Educational communications experts, World Wide Web programmers, curriculum designers and computer and video technologists are joining forces with Cornell faculty to extend Cornell's educational programs throughout the world.
The Summer Olympics athletes that Dr. Michael A. Ball cares for will run three days in Georgia's July heat, jump over logs and ditches, sweat off as much as 10-15 liters of body fluid an hour and carry other athletes on their backs.
Applications for admission to Cornell for fall 1996 have reached the third-highest level in the institution's history, a 2 percent increase over last year. Applications from underrepresented minority groups, with the exception of Native Americans, also increased over last year to be at or near the highest levels for these groups in the past decade, reports Donald A. Saleh, Cornell acting dean of admissions and financial aid.
Cornell's Mann Library will soon give agriculture researchers and students in developing countries access to a wealth of technical information they need to increase food production.
Students and faculty at Colorado State University will be reading publications from the stacks at Cornell's Mann Library for the next year or so, in a special arrangement to help the Colorado school deal with a devastating flood that destroyed many of its library's holdings.
Poor rural women who don't always have enough food in their homes exhibit binge eating patterns and are only about half as likely as other women to consume daily the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables. Therefore, these women are less likely to consume adequate vitamin C, potassium and fiber.
Young women with low body iron -- but who are not quite anemic -- must use more effort to do the same amount of physical work or exercise than women who are not iron- deficient, according to several new Cornell studies.
Decade of Challenge: From developing artificial skin to relieving chronic pain in the elderly, research collaborations between the Ithaca and New York City campuses are improving the quality of life.