During the Blizzard of '96, news reports of roof failures throughout the Northeast corridor -- from Boston to Washington -- prompted Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell and Kent State University researchers to prepare an "Evaluation of East Coast Snow Loads Following the January 1996 Storms."
For many urban Americans -- especially nonwhites and New Yorkers -- home sweet home is structurally inadequate and overcrowded, according to a new Cornell study. Although American housing quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, nonwhites were three times more likely to live in structurally inadequate housing than whites in seven representative metropolitan areas studied.
Cornell will celebrate its 129th Commencement on Sunday, May 25. The program will be held in Schoellkopf Stadium from 11 a.m. to noon, with the procession beginning on the Arts Quad at 9:30 a.m. Following Cornell tradition, the commencement speaker will be the university's president, Hunter Rawlings.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University students were honored recently for their community-service efforts. The Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards were presented on Friday, April 25, to sophomore Jamila Cutliff, junior Hilary Himes and senior Debbie Warren. The award was established by alumni Gerald Robinson '54 and Margot Robinson '55, and Robert Appel '53 and Helen Appel '55. It was created to recognize and honor students who have had significant involvement in community service by providing support for their projects which address a community's social needs or problems. Three students are selected, and each receives $1,500 to further a community-service project that he or she has initiated and proposed.
H. Alex Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and newly named Kimmel Foundation Scholar in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, is assembling a research team to study the function of phospholipase D, a natural enzyme that is believed to be a crucial biochemical link in the cell-signaling cascade that permits the spread of many kinds of cancer cells.
Cornell University Library is embarking on a three-year collaborative project with the National and University Library of Iceland to create the Icelandic National Digital Library.
Sure, they were the reigning national champs, but at this year's contest the Big Red soil judging team had something more to show: their appreciation. "We dedicated our effort to Jeff Wagenet, who is currently fighting cancer," said John Galbraith, coach of the team and a research support specialist in Cornell's Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences Department.
The last word -- or where to begin to find it -- on any issue that relates to employment, the workplace or human resources can now be found on the World Wide Web at http://workindex.com.
At 24, Thien Minh Ly was the oldest child of a family of first-generation immigrants from Vietnam. A successful student, he held degrees from Georgetown University and UCLA, where he headed the Vietnamese Student Association. His promising future was cut short when he was fatally stabbed -- the victim of a hate crime -- by two men in Los Angeles in January 1996.
M&T Bank is offering a full scholarship to Cornell's Summer College, one of the nation's first summer programs for high school students. High school juniors and seniors from Broome, Cortland and Tompkins counties are eligible for the M&T scholarship, which is worth $4,950.
A one-week course on designing and managing indoor water-reuse systems for fin fish culture is scheduled for June 24-28 by the Cornell Aquaculture Program and the Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center. Course registration is $600. The course is conducted at the Cornell Animal Science and Teaching Center in Harford, N.Y., and at Cornell's Ithaca campus.
