In a close race with substantially lower voter turnout than five years ago, J. Robert Cooke, Cornell professor of agricultural and biological engineering, was elected dean of the Cornell faculty. Cooke, elected to a three-year term, takes office July 1.
Try this: Practice viewing the world as a child, seeing things as they might be, exploring your creative potential. For example, find the letters of the alphabet in everyday objects, such as a cloud that forms a C.
The benefits of eating wild Pacific salmon outweigh the risks because it has fewer cancer-causing contaminants than farmed salmon, but the risks of eating farmed Atlantic salmon outweigh the benefits for some people, say Barbara Knuth and Steven Schwager of Cornell University in a benefit-risk analysis in November's Journal of Nutrition. (December 22, 2005)
In a letter to the editor, Martin Kurlich of Endwell, N.Y., takes exception to Professor Paul Sherman's view that there is a lack of intelligent design in the human respiratory and digestive systems. (December 14, 2005)
Jane Mt. Pleasant, director of the American Indian Program at Cornell, was presented with the highest honor of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at the organization's national conference in Houston in November.
This month marks the fifth year of Cornell University's bias response program. The universitywide program addresses bias activities based on race, national origin, sexual orientation and gender that were not previously addressed through existing discrimination complaint processes. (December 12, 2005)
Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the United States, spoke about 'China-U.S. Relations and China's Peaceful Development' in a public lecture April 5. (April 6, 2007)
If you're wondering how you're going to get the kids from point A to point B, over to C, back to B, over to D and finally back to point A again, Tcat -- Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit -- has a solution.
Higher energy prices, which have been affecting Cornell since July, are expected to continue through the winter. Members of the Cornell community are asked to help out by saving electricity. (November 29, 2005)
The number of children living in poverty in the United States is down to 16 percent --the lowest in 20 years. The reason is largely that more mothers -- especially single mothers -- are working and not because of changes in family structure, reports Cornell University's Daniel Lichter, in Social Sciences Quarterly. (November 28, 2005)