Cornell University submitted site plan applications May 31 with Ithaca's planning department to install nets on seven bridges on and adjacent to campus. (May 31, 2011)
Cornell faculty members Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis will meet with government leaders, activists and academics in Greece this summer to discuss the water-scarcity problem in the Mediterranean. (May 27, 2008)
Robert H. Foote, Cornell professor emeritus of animal science and a pioneer in cloning, will testify at hearings before the New York State Assembly Committee on Science and Technology on April 14.
Deputy Provost David Harris had one more vital piece of instruction for Cornell's freshly minted group of doctors of philosophy at the Ph.D. recognition ceremony in Barton Hall on May 24. (May 25, 2008)
Under a black cloth in a small cylinder in the basement of a Cornell building, a storm is raging. The cloth is there to protect the unwary from the centerpiece of the laboratory, an instrument equipped with a laser beam powerful enough to harm the retina of the eye.
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is presenting a public lecture by Jennifer Tipton, Cornell Class of 1958, one of the theater world's most distinguished lighting designers.
Two Cornell University researchers, Robert J. Sullivan Jr., research associate in space sciences, and Harry Stewart, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have been named by NASA as members of the science team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission. Sullivan and Stewart will collaborate in an examination of the physical properties of Martian soils, using instruments aboard the two rover vehicles that will explore the Martian surface. The researchers' proposal was one of 28 selected from more than 80 submitted to NASA last December. The MER mission, scheduled for launch in mid-2003, involves two identical rovers. They will arrive at separate destinations on Mars early in 2004. (July 18, 2002)
Conventional wisdom has it that companies wanting to attract more institutional investors can do so by paying out more dividends. Not so, a new study by two Cornell University professors shows. In fact, it turns out that companies attract more institutional investors by repurchasing shares of their own stock and paying out fewer dividends. The study, "Institutional Holdings and Payout Policy," by Roni Michaely, professor of finance at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Yaniv Grinstein, assistant professor of finance at the Johnson School, reverses earlier thinking on how companies actually attract institutional investors. (July 17, 2002)
What started as a casual screening of raspberry varieties in the greenhouse grew into a graduate student class project and may soon blossom into a large-scale, full-fledged agricultural industry for New York: fresh, sweet raspberries in winter.
Library-sponsored student awards range from fun contests to formal recognition of accomplishments.
T-shirt contest
The top contender for "fun" awards is the Fine Arts Library's (FAL) T-shirt Contest. The goal of the competition…