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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and social achievements, the Green Revolution saved millions from starvation in the 1960s and 70s. Now, faced with increasing population growth, environmental degradation and problems of hunger, Cornell University scientists believe the future is bleak. Scientists are hoping to gather $100 million over the next five years for an international program, "Global Research on the Environmental and Agricultural Nexus (GREAN) for the 21st Century." This initiative -- a new GREAN revolution -- is the outcome of the Taskforce on Research Innovation for Productivity and Sustainability, an international group led by Cornell and the University of Florida. GREAN.bpf.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Pet owners intrigued by the exotic are getting something extra with their imported iguanas -- exotic forms of Salmonella bacteria that can cause life-threatening illness in humans, Cornell University veterinary researchers are finding. An influx of cases at the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine prompts diagnosticians here to issue a warning: Wash your hands after handling iguanas and other reptiles and anything they may have contacted. iguanasalmonella.hrs.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Many of the large problems that confront society are multidisciplinary and high-performance computating can contribute in essential ways to their solution, Malvin H. Kalos, director of the Cornell Theory Center, told a congressional panel last week. These problems, Kalos said, cross the boundaries of any one science and must be approached through systematic connections that supercomputing allows. kalostest.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- New technology being developed at Cornell University could bring multimedia communications to your desktop computer a lot sooner -- and at a much lower cost -- than anyone expected. Cornell is testing an idea called "Cells in Frames," which allows computer data to be transmitted over existing computer networks via a system called Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), without expensive new hardware at each workstation. ATM is a way of sending data faster and more smoothly, designed to carry audio and video as well as text. Cornell will use the new system at first to replace its existing campus telephone system with computer telephony. CellsInFrames.bs.html
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. adhesive.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a surveillance program for British cattle that were imported to the United States before bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) in England prompted a 1989 embargo on cattle from the United Kingdom. Federal and state authorities are using a pathological incinerator at the veterinary college to cremate several cattle that were given up by American owners. The so-called BSE surveillance cattle are not believed to have the fatal brain disease and show no symptoms, but authorities won't know for sure until post-mortem tests are completed. Officials of USDA and state agriculture agencies ordered the animals destroyed. The pathological incinerator at Cornell is one of the few in the Northeast with the capacity for cremating large animals. Three BSE surveillance cattle are scheduled for cremation this week (April 10-12). Two animals are among the 13 ordered destroyed in New York state; the third is from New Hampshire. incineratorrel.hrs.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- 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 (BSE), or mad cow disease, may have infected humans. "Whatever the agent is that's presumably responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, it has the most remarkable properties and it desperately needs more study," said Brian A. Summers, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., a board-certified veterinary pathologist specializing in comparative neuropathology and associate professor of pathology at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. madcow.hrs.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Faculty, staff and students at Cornell University now have full, free and around-the-clock access to more than 400 health and nutrition data sets from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). "The NCHS selects schools with a broad program of teaching and research in the area of public health or demography to participate in this program," said Edward Frongillo, director of Statistical Consulting in Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) and Colleges of Human Ecology and Agriculture and Life Sciences. Frongillo's office will administer the new NCHS Health Data Program with the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER). "Allowing us to join the program, which now includes 69 schools, means that the NCHS recognizes Cornell and DNS as having a public health program that justifies this relationship." data.ssl.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Back in the old days -- say 1993 -- Cornell University agriculture students surfed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics System gopher site at the university's Albert R. Mann Library for the latest in crop and farm information. Well, that was then. Now, the USDA site has jumped onto the World Wide Web. It can be found at:
ITHACA, N.Y. -- For most of the last 30 years, scientists and engineers have waged a war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak. But, environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer, according to a Cornell University scientist.
"This weed is the zebra mussel of the plant world," said Bernd Blossey, director of the Biological Control of Non-Indigenous Plant Species Program at Cornell. "Almost every state has this problem. It is replacing the native macrophytes and has detrimental effects on the ecology of infested waters." blossey.bf.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly colored male animals are advertising something of importance to their prospective mates. Should the female assume the gaudiest male has parasite-resistance genes that will benefit her offspring? Or that she simply won't pick up bugs from the guy?
A Cornell University biologist's analysis of mating-success studies, as reported in the March 5, 1996, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 93, pp. 2229-2233), suggests that the direct benefit -- avoiding parasites for herself and her young ones -- may have a role in the evolution of male flamboyance. parasite.hrs.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
"The Northeast couldn't break the grip of winter during March 1996," said Keith Eggleston, regional climatologist at the center. Cold weather plagued the 12-state region, as the monthly average temperature was 4.1 degrees colder than normal -- the coldest March in the Northeast since 1984. Maine had the smallest departure from normal at minus-2.2 degrees. West Virginia reported the largest departure at minus-5.8 degrees, making this the 10th coldest March on record there. nrccmarch96.bpf.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- It may not be a household concept, but integrated pest management (IPM) is the talk of the farm. About 90 percent of the state's growers or producers use at least one form of IPM, while hundreds of the state's growers rely completely on these practices, according to the recently released New York State Integrated Pest Management Program's 1996 Annual Report.
"Agriculture isn't the same as it was 10 years ago," said James P. Tette, director of the program. "Producers understand IPM and biological control, and they want to incorporate these practices into their production systems." Integrated pest management is the multistrategy approach agriculturists employ to reduce pesticide use, while obtaining high yields in the orchards and fields. Tactics include crop rotation, the use of natural/biological control methods, pest-resistant plant varieties, biopesticides, and pest attractants and repellents. ipmannrpt.bpf.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Optical glass glare filters on computer monitors can dramatically reduce health and vision problems related to computer glare and help boost productivity in full-time computer users, according to a new Cornell University study.
After using a glass anti-glare filter, the percent of daily or weekly problems related to lethargy/tiredness, tired eyes, trouble focusing eyes, itching/watery eyes and dry eyes was half what they were before filter use for people who use computer monitors all day at work, said ergonomist Alan Hedge, Ph.D., Cornell professor of design and environmental analysis and director of the Human Factors Laboratory. filters.ssl.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Food product development starts with an idea, then moves into the food lab and ends up as a consumer good for use in a kitchen. For the Cornell University Product Development Team, what started as a good idea quickly moved into three kitchens. Armed with borrowed chef equipment, pastry bags and a plastic ruler, the team prepared prototype biscuits in graduate student Sarah Douglas' kitchen. Their ultimate goal: to make "Stir-Ins," a cookie- and chocolate-based flavorant to make freshly brewed coffee more ambient and aromatic.
Coffee lovers should perk up to note: With this product, the team is one of six finalists in the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1996 Product Development Competition, held in New Orleans in June. Team members are from both Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y., campus and Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. stirin.bpf.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- That savory slice of juicy tomato reserved for the top of a freshly grilled burger or a gently tossed salad has been spared from natureŐs short list. Cornell plant pathologists have found the gene that resists the Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV), a plant disease that severely threatens tomatoes. The breakthrough: they have genetically engineered the resistance by introducing a segment of the viral genome -- the coat protein gene -- into the tomato.
"ItŐs a devastating disease, very severe in places like Italy, Spain, China, Japan and it can be severe in California," said Marc Fuchs, Ph.D., Cornell research associate in plant pathology at CornellŐs Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. "Viruses are very difficult to control, since there is no viricide to eradicate them. Once a field is diseased, there is nothing a farmer can do. The crop is ruined." tomatovir.bpf.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Thomas C. Devlin, the executive director of career services at Cornell University since 1978, has received the 1995 Warren E. Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
The Bethlehem, Pa.-based membership organization (formerly known as the College Placement Council) represents professionals involved in the career planning and employment of college students and graduates. Devlin.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How should pivotal historical events be recorded? Depicted? Commemorated?
"Recent controversies in public history, from the 'Disney's America' theme park to the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay exhibit, have highlighted the contested nature of collective memory," says Cornell University graduate student Jeffrey Hyson. Such debates are themselves powerful reminders of the uneasy alliance of history and memory, he said. That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held on the Cornell campus April 11 through 13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus. The conference is being sponsored by the Department of History, Society for the Humanities, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and Graduate History Association. history_conf.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell University on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab.
His lecture, "The Chemistry of Polar Ozone Depletion," is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Cornell Chemistry Department. Molina.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Former U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), a 1939 Cornell Law School alumnus who went on to serve as a secretary of state and to run for president, died on Monday, March 25, at Georgetown University Medical Center after suffering a heart attack following surgery to open a blocked artery in his leg. He was 81.
One of his friends and one of Cornell Law School's most distinguished alumni, Sol Linowitz, L.L.B. '38, said Muskie's political career came as a big surprise. "Never in a million years would I have imagined Ed becoming a U.S. senator," recalled the Cornell trustee emeritus, a former Xerox chairman who served as President Jimmy Carter's ambassador-at-large and President Lyndon B. Johnson's ambassador and U.S. representative to the Organization of American States. Muskie.jkg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, Illes (pronounced ILL-liss), a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.
Turning down an offer to relocate, Illes turned to the task at hand: consoling fellow employees, developing retraining programs and communicating the plant closure process to employees. Illes had no time to grieve for her own uncertain future, for her hours were spent encouraging displaced employees to envision a bright future despite the adversity they faced. It is this paradoxical perspective that makes Illes's book, Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing, a valuable treatise on plant shut downs. In one paragraph, Illes suggests ways employees can set ground rules in a layoff situation and in the next, she counsels corporations on ways to sustain morale and be sensitive to employees' needs. sizingdown2.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell University at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public.
On Jan. 13, 1990, Wilder achieved a milestone when he was sworn in as the first elected African-American governor in U.S. history. Notably, his election occurred in a state that was once a cornerstone of the Confederacy and that had once denied Wilder admission to its law schools. Wilder.release.sfm.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The ascent offered everything Cornell's climbing wall lacks: red-eyed tree frogs and in-your-face howler monkeys, monster-movie spiders and cartoon-colored toucans, pink bromeliads filled with water and animal life, and a toucan's eye view of the Costa Rican rain forest that "seemed like it went on forever."
Safely back in Ithaca, the 12 students from BioES 400 (Canopy Biology and Canopy Access in the Neotropics) are glad they learned climbing fundamentals on indoor rock before heading up the Virola trees. "The only moment I've thought about my death came and went in the tree while taking measurements with strong winds swinging me in all directions," recalled Erin Lindquist, a junior in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (ALS). She was measuring relative humidity by twirling a sling psychrometer in the Cerro de la Muerte region of Costa Rica, where solid ground is already 10,000 feet above sea level and trees have nowhere to go but up. canopy.hrs.html
ITHACA, N.Y.-- Kenneth T. Derr, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron Corp., will deliver the 1996 Durland Lecture Wednesday, April 17, at Cornell University.
Derr, a Cornell alumnus and emeritus trustee, will present "Competitive Performance: The Master Metric for an Evolving Global Economy" at 4:30 p.m. in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. In addition to his lecture, Derr will meet with students in the Johnson Graduate School of Management and in the College of Engineering. durlandlect.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- James R. Houck, Cornell University professor of astronomy, has been named the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor in Astronomy.
Houck, who has been on the Cornell faculty since 1969, earned his Ph.D. here in 1967. He is an expert in developing optical and infrared instrumentation and techniques for observing astronomical sources. Houck.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How much government regulation of the Internet should there be? How should the First Amendment and privacy law apply to the electronic superhighway, where everything from medical information to pornography is available at the press of a button?
These issues and others will be examined by law professors, attorneys, a representative of America Online and the president of Morality in Media at a symposium on "Regulating Cyberspace: Is Censorship Sensible?" April 12 and 13 at Cornell University. Internet-Law.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
The title of the free and open lecture is "Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Diminishing America's Global Stature." messengerlect.jg.html
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cornell University, with support from the Foundation for Prevention and Early Resolution of Conflict (PERC), plans to establish an institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations for the study of conflict resolution.
The institute, to be located on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, N.Y., is expected to open in August 1996. PERClipsky.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Arguably the two most important figures in history will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, given by noted historian Francis E. Peters at 4:30 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Peters, a professor of Near Eastern languages and literatures and history at New York University, will give a University Lecture titled "Jesus and Muhammad: An Essay in Comparative Historiography." Peters will deliver this semester's final University Lecture, the most prestigious forum Cornell offers visitors who come to campus to deliver a single address. His talk is free and open to the public. Peters.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering and other disciplines are helping New York state address a broad range of transportation problems, from how to promote car pooling and optimizing highway maintenance management to how to get trains and freight trucks on coordinated schedules, and a host of other issues related to making transportation more efficient, safe and less costly.
The effort will make research results from universities and national laboratories and other institutions available to the New York State Department of Transportation. The three-year contract has an anticipated budget of $1 million per year. traffic.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A Cornell University study may have the last word on whether a reform of New York workers' compensation program would save money and ensure quality medical care.
The pilot program requires employees of participating companies who are injured at work, and therefore eligible for workers' compensation, to seek medical care from a managed care organization rather than from their family physicians. The experimental program will test whether a major overhaul of New York's workers' compensation program would affect the quality of care while enabling insurance companies to reduce premiums, which have been accused by some as contributing to the migration of business from the state. Workers_comp_study.dg.html
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. canada.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y.-- Kenneth T. Derr, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron Corp., will deliver the 1996 Durland Lecture Wednesday, April 17, at Cornell University.
Derr, a Cornell alumnus and emeritus trustee, will present "Competitive Performance: The Master Metric for an Evolving Global Economy" at 4:30 p.m. in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. In addition to his lecture, Derr will meet with students in the Johnson Graduate School of Management and in the College of Engineering. durlandlect.dg.html
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. goldwatersch.sm.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- 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 University on April 23 and 25.
Leal will speak on "Studies of the Motions of Polymeric Liquids: Experimental Studies" (April 23) and "Studies of the Motions of Polymeric Liquids: Theoretical Studies" (April 25). Both lectures will be at 4 p.m. in room 165 Olin Hall and are free and open to the public. leal.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University'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. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall and will include a seating section for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals who do not want to be photographed.
Audience members will have the opportunity to make prepared statements of up to two minutes at the meeting. Those statements, and all of the issues addressed, will be considered at the upcoming meeting of the Resource Office Advisory Group and Working Group on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Concerns. LGBtownmeeting.html
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. lighting.ltb.html
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. trusteeadv412.jp.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- 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.
Tia Schneider Denenberg, arbitrator, mediator and principal in Workplace Solutions, a project of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), reports in the January-March 1996 issue of Dispute Resolution Journal that competitive pressures, loss of autonomy and changing work force demographics are being recognized more and more as factors contributing to workplace violence. workplaceviol.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Former congressmen Thomas Downey (D- N.Y.) and Rod Chandler (R-Wash.) will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace Thursday, April 18, in Washington, D.C. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies, will begin at 8 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
In addition to the former congressmen, Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, will offer remarks. changing_workplace.djg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Unless new partnerships and less partisanship occur, America's status as the world leader of technological innovation is seriously threatened, warned authors of a report released by the Council on Competitiveness during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on April 10.
The report, Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness, is the result of a 15-month assessment of U.S. research and development that drew on the insights of 80 of the nation's leading scientists, engineers, educators and entrepreneurs. The council project was co-chaired by Gary L. Tooker, chief executive officer of Motorola Inc., and Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University and chairman of the National Science Board. Competitiveness_Report.lgk.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's fraternity and sorority councils will conduct the 11th annual Collegetown Good Neighbor Day on Saturday, April 27. Activities include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility poles and open spaces.
Volunteers will gather at 10 a.m. in front of the Collegetown Motor Lodge, 312 College Ave. From there, teams of students will begin their cleanup effort. Good_Neighbor_Day_1996.html
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. greekfreak96.sm.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Carolyn J. Jacobson, director of public relations for the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers International Union, has been named the 1996 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Jacobson will be honored April 17 at a reception at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The Groat Award, named for the New York State Supreme Court justice who played a key role in the founding of the ILR School and in drafting its charter, is presented annually to an ILR graduate who has demonstrated exceptional professional accomplishment in the field of industrial and labor relations, and outstanding service to the school. Groat.Award.djg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- This is one student takeover that administrators don't mind. Students in the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration will be given the keys to Cornell's Statler Hotel this weekend to operate the 150-room property on their own from April 19-21.
Friday through Sunday, Hotel School students will have the final word in all areas of hotel operations, from room service to food and beverage management, as they accommodate an extremely discerning clientele -- executives in the hospitality industry. During this time, the Statler Hotel goes through a transformation. All signs, logos and other decorations that for 362 days a year read "Statler Hotel" are changed to read "Hotel Ezra Cornell."
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will give a free and public lecture at Cornell University on Tuesday, April 23, titled "Dialectics of Decadence: The Weight of History on Contemporary Art" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 115 of Tjaden Hall.
Kuspit, a professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, lends his editorial expertise to several prominent journals, including Art Criticism, Artforum, New Art Examiner, Sculpture and Centennial Review. kuspit.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Researchers for Cornell University's Lake Source Cooling (LSC) project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
Now through April 13, the LSC project team will perform a Cayuga Lake bottom contour and subbottom sediment structure survey. During the week of April 15, surveys also will begin along the proposed land pipeline route between 1000 East Shore Drive and the Cornell University campus. lakesource.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Walter R. Lynn, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Center for the Environment (CfE). A specialist in water-resources planning and a Senior Fellow in the center, Lynn follows James P. Lassoie, director of CfE since 1993. Lynn will serve as director while a national search is conducted for his successor.
The universitywide center coordinates interdisciplinary education, research and outreach in seeking new approaches to environmental challenges that are both economically and environmentally sustainable. lynnCfE.hrs.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University has been awarded a three-year $195,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The grant will enhance the museum's educational mission and further strengthen collaborative efforts between the museum and Cornell's academic departments, as well as support student internships. Mellon_Grant.djg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Some pundits are predicting that Ralph Nader could be President Bill Clinton's nemesis come November. Members of the Cornell University and Ithaca communities can make that judgment for themselves on Tuesday, April 23, at 8 p.m., when the consumer advocate, lawyer and presidential hopeful gives a lecture in Cornell's Bailey Hall. Tickets are $3 for Cornell students and $5 for the general public and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall box office.
According to recent editorials in The New York Times and Time magazine, Nader, who has announced his intention to run for president on the Green Party ticket, could cost Clinton much-needed votes in California -- and thereby hand victory in that critical state over to Republican challenger Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan). Nader.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Karin Klapper couldn't be happier. The Cornell University senior has just learned that she will spend a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar.
Klapper, a communication major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was one of 10 American and two Israelis awarded the prestigious scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to individuals, most of them graduating seniors, who have demonstrated leadership potential and provides them with full tuition and related costs for a year of study in the Hebrew University Visiting Graduate Program. The scholarship is named for Raoul Wallenberg, the Christian Swedish diplomat who risked his life to rescue Jews during World War II. wallenbergaward.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium. The audience of about 250 people included members of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council as well as honorees and well-wishers from departments and programs across the college.
The awards and their recipients, all Ithaca residents, were as follows: ArtsandSciencesAwards.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.
"This was a real human problem as well as a moral problem, deciding whether or not children should go to school," he recently told students in a European history class at Cornell University. Though the United Nations had identified Tuzla as one of six "safe areas" in Bosnia, he said, it was shelled regularly by Serbian forces -- who often targeted schools. Bosnia.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- College students from several East Coast states will visit Cornell University the weekend of April 26-28 for a conference celebrating Mexican-American art and culture.
"A Celebration of Chicana/o Cultural Productions: Utilizing Art as a Tool for Empowerment" is open to the public and will feature a lecture by filmmaker and actor Edward James Olmos on Saturday, April 27, at 8:30 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Free tickets will be available for Olmos' lecture, with one ticket per Cornell I.D., at the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall on April 25 and April 26 on a first-come, first-served basis. Chicano.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David J. Gibson has been named editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine. Gibson's appointment was made by the Cornell Magazine Committee of the Cornell Alumni Federation, which owns the publication. He is the first non-Cornell graduate to head the magazine and will assume his new role in late May.
Gibson succeeds Stephen Madden '86, who has left the magazine to become a senior editor at Sports Illustrated. Cornell.Mag.new.editor.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell University's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year. Duffield's honor is a highlight of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Celebration '96, which will be held April 25 and 26 on the Cornell campus.
Duffield, who earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell in 1963 and 1964, respectively, will be the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel. Duffield will give a public lecture April 26 at 2 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall. EPE_Award.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997. The fellowships are named for the late Roy H. Park. Funding will be provided by the Park Foundation.
Alan Merten, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School, said the establishment of the Park Fellowships will enable the school to attract the best students. "The Park Fellowships help propel the school into the next century by enabling us to compete aggressively for the best students and thus meet the demands of the corporate community," he said. Park_Fellows.dg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- John Shipley Rowlinson, the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, will be at Cornell University from April 27 through May 4 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. On May 1, he will deliver a free and public lecture titled "How Does a Glacier Come Down a Mountain? A Rheological Problem" at 4:30 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall.
"Rowlinson is a world-renowned expert on the properties of liquid mixtures and of liquid interfaces," said Keith Gubbins, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor of Engineering at Cornell. Gubbins, who is hosting Rowlinson's Cornell visit, has collaborated with him on many research projects over the years; several of Rowlinson's Ph.D. students have spent extended periods with Gubbins as postdoctoral workers, and vice-versa. Rowlinson.jg.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for facilities and campus services at Cornell University, today (April 19) issued the following statement concerning several events involving a CU Transit bus on April 15:
"The safety of the entire community is a primary objective of the CU Transit system. The events of April 15 that have already been reported in the press are matters of grave concern to the university. One of our students was reportedly bumped by one of our buses as she attempted to cross East Avenue in a marked crosswalk. This is a most serious allegation and would be a violation, not only of the vehicle and traffic law but also of the Cornell safety standards that are a critical part of the regular training of all drivers in CU Transit. The University wishes to express its profound apology to the pedestrians involved and its regret that the incident occurred. trans.stmt.hnd.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Digitize mail and paper files so employees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environment and provide alcohol swabs and cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free.
These are but a few of the "best alternative office practices" gleaned from more than 25 innovative companies and summarized in the new book "Managing the Reinvented Workplace" (International Development Research Council, 1996) by Cornell University professors and organizational ecologists William Sims, Ph.D., and Franklin Becker, Ph.D., with Michael Joroff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Margaret J. Geller, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will deliver the Bethe Lectures at Cornell University the week of May 6.
Geller will give a free public lecture on Tuesday, May 7, at 8 p.m. Her talk, "So Many Galaxies . . . So Little Time," will be in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, and it will include a state-of-the-art graphic voyage through the nearby universe. Geller has produced a film of the same name that depicts the way a scientific group works. She will describe the use of very large telescopes to explore the distant universe in an effort to understand the origins of patterns in the universe. geller.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Women students will have a unique opportunity to network with some of Cornell's most distinguished alumnae during a three-day conference on campus sponsored by the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) April 26-28.
The conference will include a mini town meeting to explore the climate for women on campus and in the workplace and a luncheon for students and PCCW members. PCCW.conference.lgk.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Claude Steele, professor of psychology at Stanford University, will present the 1995-1996 Flemmie Kittrell Lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 29, at
7:30 p.m. in Uris Auditorium. steelelecture.ssl.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University researchers have won Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1996. They are among 158 artists, scholars and scientists from among 2,791 applicants to be chosen for the honor. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awarded $4.5 million in research funds this year. Fellows are chosen on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
The Cornell faculty members are: P. Andrew Karplus, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, G. Peter Lepage, professor of physics, for numerical methods in low-energy strong interaction physics, and Stephen A. Vavasis, associate professor of computer science, for geometry in scientific computing. guggies.ltb.html
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Judith Surkis, a graduate student in the Department of History at Cornell University, has received a Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most respected academic honorary society.
The fellowship was established by a former Cornell graduate student, Isabelle Stone, who received a Ph.D. in Greek history and language in 1908 and named the award in honor of her mother. The fellowship has been given annually since 1939 to women ages 25-35 who hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. Recipients, who need not be affiliated with Cornell or Phi Beta Kappa, receive a $10,000 stipend to conduct original research in Greece or France. Sibley.Fellowship.jkg.html