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Cornell University Appoints New President

Peter C. Meinig Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University announced today the appointment of Dr. David J. Skorton as Cornell's 12th president.

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Former President Bush salutes Cornell; Rawlings gives keynote in Beijing

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Rawlings_forum.html

First round of presidential interviews 'justifies a positive outlook'

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/search.11.10.fac.html

Cornell is top 10 in two surveys of 'best places' in academia

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/ScientistBestPlaces.kr.html

Twelve projects receive $50,000 intercampus seed grants

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/SeedGrants.kr.html

Traffic issues drive discussion at first open forum on sustainability

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Sustainability.forum.lg.html

Volleyball team heads to NCAA tournament

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/

CU Professor and five students honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Francine Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics at Cornell University, and five Cornell students were honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) as new fellows for 2005 on April 10. The AAPSS designates new fellows each year "to recognize and honor individual social scientists for their distinguished scholarship in the social sciences, sustained efforts to communicate that scholarship to audiences beyond their own discipline and professional activities that promise to continue to promote the progress of the social sciences." http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/Notable.AAPSS.ssl.html

Cornell researchers' discovery opens door in fight against cancer and other diseases

Cornell University researchers have revealed a process that has stumped scientists for many years: exactly how an acid derived from vitamin A enters a cell's nucleus, where it has strong anti-carcinogenic effects. Discovery of this basic transport mechanism opens a new door for future research on related compounds. The finding has important implications for the fight against cancer and other diseases. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/Noy.Protein.kr.html

Three Cornell professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Three Cornell University faculty members are among the 213 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in honor of their distinguished contributions to their professions. The three Cornell honorees to be inducted in October are Gregory Lawler, professor of mathematics; Mars rover scientist Steven Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy; and novelist Alison Lurie, F.J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/CU_A-Sfellows.fac.html

The novel 'Things Fall Apart' brings people together as 59 high schools statewide and 24,000 Cornell alumni sign on for annual reading

"Things Fall Apart" is bringing people together. Nearly 5,000 students from 59 high schools in 17 New York counties and New York City will read Chinua Achebe's masterful novel "Things Fall Apart" as part of a statewide pilot program coordinated through Cornell Cooperative Extension and the 2005 New Student Reading Project at Cornell. In addition, 24,000 Cornell alumni from 31 class years also will join what has become an annual rite of passage for incoming freshman and transfer students at Cornell. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/readingproj.fac.html

Cornell economist, launching year of the family, identifies trends that affect children

Is the American family dissolving or evolving, asked H. Elizabeth Peters, professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University in a public lecture April 20. Her talk launched the upcoming year of Cornell events focused on the family. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/Peters.fam.talk.ssl.html

Cornell Mosaic is hallmark of campus that works hard at diversity

In 1925 Cornell University became the first institution of higher learning to award a doctorate in pure mathematics to an African American. But well before that, indeed, since its founding in 1865, Cornell had been pursuing cultural and intellectual variety on campus. Starting this week, on April 29, and continuing through May 1 the university continues to break ground by hosting a landmark conference, "Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion," a title that reflects the conference's goals and spotlights Cornell's free-thinking, inclusive atmosphere. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/CornellMosaic.sfm.html Read about the conference. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/Diversity.Cornell.kr.html

Summit pulls together what Cornell should pursue in quest to be more sustainable

How can the Cornell campus do more when it comes to energy efficiency, recycling, reducing pollution, preserving green areas and other efforts that promote sustainability? Themes that emerged from the first-ever Campus Sustainability Summit April 14 in Anabel Taylor Hall included: brief incoming students on the ways they can help to be more energy efficient and reduce the waste stream; hire staff to promote and coordinate sustainability efforts on campus; encourage making any new building on campus meet "green" standards; collaborate with the larger community to make a greater effort to support local vendors; and develop a set of indicators to monitor the success of sustainability efforts. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/sustain.summit.ssl.html

CALS centennial year symposium features giants of innovation

The centennial year for Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will come to a close Friday, April 29, with "The Golden Age of Innovation" -- a symposium featuring major contributors to human health, nutrition and education. "Having Maxine Singer, Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Norman Borlaug together in one room for a public symposium is truly an historic event and a wonderful way to wrap up our centennial year activities," says Susan Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who will moderate the event. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/CALS_Gold_Age_Symp.html

Steal this concerto, please: An interview with Steven Stucky

Steven Stucky's most commercially successful work to date is an arrangement of a piece written by a man who died 400 years ago -- Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary." "It's my greatest hit by far," said Stucky, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Second Concerto for Orchestra earlier this month. "There are like five different recordings of the Purcell." http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/stucky.interview.fac.html

Cornell becomes even more selective in choosing incoming students

Cornell University is getting more selective. This year, Cornell received an all-time record of 24,444 applications for undergraduate admissions. Of them, 26.1 percent of the applicants were admitted -- that's down from 29 percent last year and 31 percent two years ago. With a more than 17 percent increase in applications this year, Cornell had the second highest application increase in the Ivy League, just behind Princeton's jump of about 20 percent; Harvard's increase was about 15 percent. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/admissions.report.ssl.html

NSF launches $19 million research program for computer security, with Cornell's Fred Schneider as chief scientist

Cornell University will be part of a nationwide initiative to develop long-term solutions to computer security problems, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced. The NSF expects to provide almost $19 million in funding for the program over five years, with about $3 million coming to Cornell. The plan creates a new Science and Technology Center that will bring together researchers with a strong background in security research from eight academic institutions along with industrial and government partners. Fred Schneider, Cornell professor of computer science, will be chief scientist; S. Shankar Sastry, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California-Berkeley, will be principal investigator and director of the new center. Stephen Wicker, Cornell professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the participating team of Cornell faculty and will be a member of the center's governing board. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/TRUST.ws.html

Rover mission extended for 18 months -- or as long as parts hold up

NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months. The mission will be extended through September 2006. http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/rover/Roverextension.html

New York City selects Cornell to head up impact study of 2012 Olympic Games

In its efforts to land the 2012 Olympic Games, New York City has turned to Cornell University for help. To complete its application, the city has asked Cornell's Center for the Environment to put together a plan for conducting a global impact study and a team of prominent environmental, social and economic scientists from leading academic institutions to carry it out if New York gets the games. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/olympics.NYC.ssl.html

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are now species of slime-mold beetles -- but strictly in homage

U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor. Two former Cornell University entomologists who recently had the job of naming 65 new species of slime-mold beetles named three species that are new to science in the genus "Agathidium" for members of the U.S. administration. They are "A. bushi" Miller and Wheeler, "A. cheneyi" Miller and Wheeler and "A. rumsfeldi" Miller and Wheeler. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April05/slime-mold.Bush.Cheney.ssl.html

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