Carol L. Anderson, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, was installed as the president-elect of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) at the association's annual meeting in Atlanta earlier this month.
Lester Fuess Eastman, the John L. Given Foundation Chair Professor of Engineering at Cornell, has been selected as the recipient of the 1999 Graduate Teaching Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
A Cornell University engineer believes it is possible to limit the destruction from the type of tsunami that slammed into the coast of Papua New Guinea on July 17 with proper coastal management, such as building structures like sea walls, and creating zoning policies banning building in high-risk areas. Philip Liu, professor of civil and environmental engineering, believes that the thousands of deaths and terrible destruction on the island by the 30-foot-high ocean wave was due both to the flatness of the land -- basically lowland jungle -- as well as the flimsy nature of the buildings.
Most students work in a library, laboratory or classroom, but Cornell University undergraduate Greg Aloe floats in space aboard the same NASA aircraft that Tom Hanks used.
Little green men! Brilliant spheres of light in the sky! Roswell! The X-Files.! Alien abduction! A UFO conference at--the Massachusetts Institute of Technology??!!
Johnson & Johnson, the multinational medical products concern, has yet again shown its support of Cornell research by awarding a $270,000, three-year grant to Bruce Ganem.
POSTCARD FROM TEL DOR--Right now, Melissa Loewenstern is in the Iron Age. By summer's end, she hopes to land in the Bronze Age. This Cornell student is spending her summer excavating an archaeological site in Israel.
Naked, immobile and conspicuously colored, the squash beetle pupae would be easy picking for insect predators if they hadn't long ago perfected a science called combinatorial chemistry.
Cornell's astronomy department is working in a newly defined role on NASA's Mars Surveyor lander mission scheduled for launch in April 2001. Although the Cornell-led Athena Rover vehicle program will not be included in the mission as previously planned.
Some corporate recruiters walked away empty-handed from Cornell University this spring. All the graduates in a small, competitive degree program were hired months before commencement.
