ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University scientists have come up with a novel way to manipulate liquid crystal molecules so they self-assemble in a desired direction into a robust network, making them useful as a new material for a variety of applications in the computer, medical, automotive and aerospace industries. The researchers have shown they can build a network of liquid crystal molecules that are linked together while aligned in an electric field. The field makes them lie parallel or perpendicular, depending on the AC frequency, so they orient on-demand.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University students have won 1996 Goldwater Scholarships for their achievements in science and mathematics. The Cornell undergraduates are: Jessika Trancik '97, a materials science and engineering major in the College of Engineering; Robert Kleinberg '97, a mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Daniel Klein '98, a college scholar, also in the College of Arts and Sciences.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University has received an $890,940 interest-free loan from New York state to help refurbish and replace lighting with energy-efficient bulbs and fixtures across campus. The five-year program, which began in 1991 and should be completed next month, already is saving enough electricity to service a town of 4,000 people, Cornell energy engineers said.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Executive Committee of Cornell University's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 11:30 a.m. April 18, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session, for the meeting's first 20 minutes, will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Provost Don M. Randel on the status of the state budget; and a recommendation on the 1997-98 capital budget request for the statutory colleges.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Africana and Latino Greek Letter Council (ALGLC) at Cornell University is presenting its annual music, entertainment and fashion benefit called Greek Freak '96 in Bailey Hall, on the Cornell campus, April 18. Tickets for Greek Freak '96, open to the public, are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. Tickets can be purchased from ALGLC members. For more ticket information, or for information on becoming a sponsor of the event, call Vaughn Lowery at 273-5043.
Maddening cow disease might be a better name, so frustrating is the causative agent with its apparent ability to move among species. Not to mention the public- health dilemmas facing authorities in Great Britain, where a cattle disease called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, may have infected humans.
The Cornell Institute for Public Affairs is presenting a lecture titled "The Break-up of Canada: Will Quebec Separatists Finally Succeed?" on Friday, April 12, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall.
The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a surveillance program for British cattle that were imported to the United States before bovine spongiform encephalopathy in England prompted a 1989 embargo on cattle from the United Kingdom.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Institute for Public Affairs is presenting a lecture titled "The Break-up of Canada: Will Quebec Separatists Finally Succeed?" on Friday, April 12, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall. The lecture will be delivered by Edward Goldenberg, senior policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Changes in the workplace continue to breed a climate of hostility and fear that is turning the workplace into a domestic battleground. But crisis management experts have found a new way to diffuse the hostility: They are using dispute resolution for violence prevention.
Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office will host a town meeting on Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m. featuring an address by President Hunter Rawlings
L. Gary Leal, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will deliver the 1996 Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell on April 23 and 25.
