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Question #1 10/22/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Oct 21
By Uncle Ezra You may also find answers to your questions during this new event. Test your fear on he History Center's Haunted History Tour of Downtown Ithaca. The tour is guided walking tour which takes approximately one hour, featuring tales touching upon many important events in the City such as the I...
Question #10 10/20/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Mon, Oct 19
By Uncle Ezra The Cornell Campus Club has been a lively organization for women of the Cornell University community for over one hundred years. The Club encourages the social and educational interests of women and of the University in general, welcomes campus newcomers, and promotes greater underst...
Question #4 10/15/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Oct 14
By Uncle Ezra “The Campus Planning Office is undertaking a comprehensive review of signage standards for campus, and using the West Campus House System as a pilot project to test an alternative signage system. There have been enough changes since the last campus signage guidelines were adopted (e.g. e...
Question #11 10/13/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Mon, Oct 12
By Uncle Ezra Dear Uncle Ezra, Im a student at Cornell University who would like to see his college application from when he originally applied (mainly because Im curious about seeing my essay and I restored my computer recently and the essay got lost in the process). I was wondering if Cornell still kep...
Univ. Creates $50K Fund to Aid Open-Access Publishing
Original at Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
• Wed, Sep 30
By Yi-Ke Peng In an effort to allow greater access to research, Cornell University Library and the Office of the Provost announced on Sept. 1 that they have established a $50,000 fund to help Cornell faculty and student researchers pay publication fees for open-access journals.
Ithaca College To Offer An Evening Of Repertory Dance
Original at Ithaca College
• Wed, Sep 30
By Susan Monagan ITHACA, NY — Choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland and her dance company will perform “Chapters, an Evening of Repertory” at Ithaca College on Saturday, Oct. 10. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in the Hoerner Theatre in Dillingham Center. There is no charge, but a donation of $10 is suggest...
Question #1 9/29/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Mon, Sep 28
By Uncle Ezra Dear Sage Bound, A Cornell connection is necessary and includes: Student or Alumni, (having earned an undergraduate or graduate degrees from Cornell University), Faculty, Staff or Trustee, Children of Alumni, Faculty, Staff or Trustee
Litigation Plagues New WCMC Bldg.
Original at Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
• Thu, Sep 24
By Alexei Adan 1240 First Avenue LLC constructed a building in New York City located on 400 East 67th St. that hosts commercial space in addition to luxury residential condominiums. A total of 25,000 square feet of space within the building was rented by Weill Cornell Medical College, split between the s...
Warren J. Schor dies of Swine Flu
Original at Cornell
• Sun, Sep 13
By Cornell's Most Infamous Warren J. Schor died of complications from H1N1 swine flu at Cayuga Medical Center on September 11, 2009. The sophomore was attending Cornell University to study economics and management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Schor was hospitalized since September 3rd after be...
Cornell sues state, city over fire code
Original at Ithaca Journal
• Tue, Jun 16
NY By Krisy Gashler • kgashler@gannett.com • Staff Writer • June 17, 2009 In a case that could have statewide implications, Cornell University is suing New York state and the City of Ithaca over their enforcement of new fire safety building codes. ...
Trumansburg/Ulysses youth will work for the community
Original at Ithaca Journal
• Mon, Jun 15
NY Isacks attended Cornell University and graduated from the New York Chiropractic College, and attained a master of science degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine. He practices in Trumansburg, where he specializes in pain management, fertility, ...
Gas drilling information available on Web
Original at Ithaca Journal
• Tue, Jun 9
NY At Cornell University, the Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) has assembled resources to help landowners through the maze of issues surrounding gas leasing. Another resource of gas leasing information has been assembled by the New York ...
Cornell to host workshop on wind power
Original at Ithaca Journal
• Tue, Jun 9
NY Cornell University will host “Large-Scale Wind-Generated Power,” a scientific workshop on gathering wind energy Friday and Saturday at Hollister and Kimball Halls on the Cornell campus. The workshop will explore the issues and obstacles to the 20 ...
Question #4 5/14/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, May 13
By Uncle Ezra Im trying to determine if Cornell University ever had a Varsity Rifle Team, or any related team of that type. The specific years I am interested in would be the mid 1970s. Might there have been a club team for this activity? Page 6 of the February 26, 1970 Cornell Chronicle shows members of the
Opinion: Two New Cloaking Devices Close In on True Invisibility
Original at National Geographic
• Wed, May 6
AMCtv.com DC - Richard A. Lovett The other team, led by Michal Lipson at Cornell University, achieved the same effect by covering their material's surface with tiny pillars also designed to bend light. The Cornell group's paper is currently under review by Nature Photonics. ...
Opinion: PIMCO Announces Promotions - PR-USA.net
Original at pr-usa.net
• Mon, Apr 13
PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria He has 21 years of legal experience and holds a JD from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was senior articles editor on the law review, and has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He was admitted to the bar in New York and ...
Opinion: Question #1 4/2/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Apr 1
By Uncle Ezra While Im at it. I think Cornell should start something new called a REVERSE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL, where the employee gets to review their supervisor once a year. That would be just as fair as having it the other way around. I mean, who knows a supervisor better than their employees?
Question #10 3/26/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Mar 25
By Uncle Ezra Most historians consider the “Ezra Cornell home” to be the house at Forest Park, the 300-acre cattle farm the Founder gave as the site for Cornell University. The house, originally built in 1839 for the pioneering Ithacan, Simeon DeWitt, stood northeast of today’s Stewart Avenue-Camp...
Opinion: Kehoe approaches Cornell
Original at Orillia Packet & Times
• Wed, Mar 25
A letter beseeching Cornell University to come to the aid the 137- year-old Orillia Farmers' Market has been referred to the university's legal department for review. "All we have right now is a person from your area sending a letter to Cornell. ...
Question #15 2/10/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Mon, Feb 9
By Uncle Ezra Im in the midst of researching Willis H. Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning and a 1901 graduate of Cornell University. Thus far, Ive encountered a discrepancy in Carriers field of study. Some sources say he graduated from Cornell with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, while othe...
Question #15 2/5/2009
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Feb 4
By Uncle Ezra Your Uncle took this serious issue to Cornell’s nationally recognized expert on the legal and ethical aspects of computing. Tracy Mitrano is the University’s Director of IT Policy in the Office of Information Technologies, as well as a lawyer and a member of the Information Science fa...
How To: Changing Paper in the Canon iPF9000s or iPF8000sOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Jan 16
By rss@youtube.com (SPiDERDAWGcom) Author: SPiDERDAWGcom Keywords: Mann Library Cornell University Stone Computing Center Jeff Diver Joe D'Angelo Canon ipf8000s Canon Canon ipf9000s changing plotter paper plotter help plotter Added: January 16, 2009
Opinion: The end of the world
Original at Reno News & Review
• Thu, Jan 15
Reno News & Review, NV - She loves to teach, and she loves the university and its students. She did her graduate studies at Cornell University and her undergraduate work at Stanford ...
Light Used to Trap, Move DNA
Original at Medgadget.com
• Tue, Jan 6
By Michael From the National Science Foundation: Light has been used to manipulate cells and even nanoscale objects before, but the new technique allows researchers to manipulate the particles more precisely and over longer distances. Press release: Nano "Tractor Beam" Traps DNA ...
Exhibition News: Icons of the Desert
Original at homepage.mac.com
• Wed, Dec 31
Roger Benjamin, guest curator, Research Professor in Art History and Actus Foundation Lecturer in Aboriginal Art, Power Institute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture, University of Sydney Fred Myers, Silver Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, New York Universit...
Opinion: MLA 2008: Politics in the Classroom, Stanley Fish-Style
Original at Chronicle of Higher Education
• Mon, Dec 29
By Liz McMillen Mr. Culler, a professor of English and comparative literature at Cornell University, compared Mr. Fish to other public intellectuals and said that he had pioneered a different role, as a provocateur. Mr. Fish seems to view the classroom as a realm of provocation as well, Mr. Culler observed —...
Question #10 11/20/2008
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Nov 19
By Uncle Ezra The Cornell Chronicle (updated daily at http://www.news.cornell.edu/ and printed on Fridays when classes are in session) is what independent journalists call a “house organ” (no, it’s not the spleen) of Cornell University. Its publisher is the University’s vice president for commun...
Opinion: Colleges and universities graded on fire safety
Original at Consumer Reports
• Thu, Nov 6
By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) Schools that earned a top score of 99 this year are: Adelphi University, Bay Path College, Bentley College, California State University at Stanislaus, Cazenovia College, College of Mount St. Joseph, Kean University, Mountain State University, Neumann College, Suffolk University,...
Opinion: Unigo’s Cornell Page
Original at Cornell
• Wed, Oct 29
By Cornell's Most Infamous I just got introduced to Unigo, a resource for University planning, and thought I’d at least drop a quick note about it. It’s essentially a guide to Colleges & Universities, ala the US News or Princeton Review yearly College Rankings. Except, it’s free, and built by volunteers.
Born in the Bronx: The Cornell University Hip-Hop Conference
Original at NewBlackMan
• Tue, Oct 28
By noreply@blogger.com (MAN) Cornell University Hosts Hip Hop Conference and Celebration Celebrating Hip Hop History October 31 - November 1, 2008 Scholars, faculty and students present recent research on hip hop. 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Teaching Hip Hop: A Lecture and Discussion
Question #3 10/23/2008
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Oct 22
By Uncle Ezra The 1929 “Cornellian” yearbook has at least three photos of your dad (who was business manager of the humor magazine, The Cornell Widow) but no mention of the Carlsark. That is not surprising, since the yearbook went to press before the Carlsark left Ithaca on June 30, 1929, to sail up Cayu...
In Defense of Cornell Review’s Name
Original at Cornell
• Thu, Sep 25
By Cornell's Most Infamous “These reapers of racial rage seclude themselves inside their ethnic ghettos (be it [program houses] Ujamaa, Latino Living Center, or Akwe;kon.” This would be just another matter of one group of students annoyed with another group of student if not for statements from the Cornell Unive...
Opinion: Ringgold's Schartner commits to New Jersey Institute
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Sat, Sep 6
PA - Other colleges that expressed interest in Schartner were Boston University, Manhattan College, Cornell University and Washington & Jefferson College. ...
How To: Digitizing primary sources
Original at EdTech Update
• Thu, Aug 14
By Jim Dornberg Digital Imaging Tutorial, by Cornell University Department of Preservation and Collections Maintenance. • www.solinet.net —The Southeastern Library Network offers training in digital imaging, copyright, digital preservation, and other ...
Question #10 8/23/2007
Original at Dear Uncle Ezra
• Wed, Aug 22
By Uncle Ezra Dear International Student, There are two possibilities that I can think of. One is to contact the Cornell Transportation Office to find out what might be the cheapest option on campus. Be sure to let them know where you will be living.
Opinion: It's Opposite Day! Cornell "Hottest" and "Worst"
Original at IvyGate
• Mon, Aug 20
Noting that "identifying America's best colleges is about as exciting and useful as naming your favorite luxury sedan (Audi)," Radar breaks out their Back-to-School "Worst Colleges in America" list. Naturally, the only Ivy to meet Radar's rigorous low standards is "America's Best S...
Hottest Colleges In America Ranked - KCCI.com
Original at KCCI.com
• Tue, Aug 14
Hottest Colleges In America Ranked IA - Aug 14, 2007 Hottest Ivy League School: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY For its world-class engineering college and top-flight liberal arts program, Cornell University ...
John Jacob Barnhardt, Jr.
Original at Hilton Head Island Packet
• Sun, Jul 22
John J. Barnhardt, Jr. John Jacob Barnhardt, Jr., was born in Concord, North Carolina on June 19, 1921, the son of John J. and Helen Matthews Barnhardt. He attended Woodberry Forest School, graduating first in his class in 1938. He enrolled at Davidson College but transferred to Cornell Univer...
Nursing Home Abuse & Violence Among Residents Common, Yet Severely Understudied
Original at Newsinferno.com
• Thu, Jul 12
By Laurie Physical abuse in a nursing home is not always perpetrated by staff. According to a Cornell University Study, resident-on-resident violence in long-term-care facilities is far more prevalent than previously thought. But the authors of the study concede that they really don’t know how...
Tim Giago: "State of the Native Nations" According to Harvard
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, Jul 5
By Tim Giago Founded by Professor Stephen Cornell and Professor Joseph P. Kalt at Harvard University in 1987, The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development has taken a wide range of its research, with comments from prominent members of the Indian community,...
Cornell police recover stolen statue from fraternity house - Ithaca Journal
Original at Ithaca Journal
• Fri, Jun 29
Cornell police recover stolen statue from fraternity house NY - ITHACA — Cornell University Police have recovered a 350-pound statue valued between $5000 and $20000 which was taken from Sibley Hall over the weekend. ...
TV Review: Doctor Who - "Human Nature"
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, May 27
By Matthew Milam If the BBC reads BC Magazine, then here's my advice to them: I would strongly recommend that you hire Paul Cornell to be head writer and executive producer of the series after Russie leaves. I know this is a dream and quite impossible. If not Cornell, then take Steven Moffat. These two with Gare...
MommyBias in the Workplace--Cornell Sociologists Say It's Real. Surprised?
Original at BlogHer
• Mon, May 21
What's a working mom to do? According to the folks at Our Bodies Our Blog women do have the option to join MomsRising.org -an organization that advocates for changes in public policy. In that Washington Post article St. George reports,
Top grades lead Lourdes swimmer to Ivy League
Original at Poughkeepsie Journal
• Sun, Apr 29
Kim Levine doesn't mince words when it comes to academics and swimming. They've been the priority in her life for at least the last four years, and it is paying off handsomely. Levine, a senior at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, has been accepted to Cornell University, an Ivy...
Do I Make You Offended Baby, Do I? -- The Snorenell Edition
Original at Sepia Mutiny
• Tue, Apr 24
By anna An "anonymous" tipster [Thanks, gf.] passed on a link to the Cornell American, which seems to be a free newspaper available on campus up there in gorge-us Ithaca. Apparently, it is a publication so desirable, you are limited to one copy per person, but I'm keeping you from the relevant backg...
Cornell Student Hates "West Bushwick"
Original at Gawker
• Thu, Mar 8
It's a familiar tale: College student arrives in New York, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and finds everything's not the way she pictured it from The Devil Wears Prada or what have you. Today's installment of that story comes courtesy of the Cornell Daily Sun, whose columnist paid a visit...
Keeping Track
Original at Poughkeepsie Journal
• Tue, Feb 20
Staatsburg's Alison Spivak netted the Empire 8 Indoor Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Week honor after qualifying for the ECACs and state championship meets in the pole vault at the Upstate Challenge hosted by Cornell University. The junior at Ithaca qualified for the two meets...
Rewilding America
Original at Scientific American
• Fri, Jan 26
In the fall of 2004, a dozen conservation biologists gathered on a ranch in New Mexico to ponder a bold plan: the reintroduction of large mammals such as camels, elephants, and cheetahs to the western part of the U.S. Although most of North America's big animals died out roughly 13,000 years...
Event Detail :: Cornell Alumni Association of N. California
Original at www.cornellnorcal.com
• Wed, Jan 18
Event Detail Cornell Goes to the Sharks!Mar 19, 2006 5:00pm – 8:00pmHP Pavilion, San JoseAdd Event to Outlook or Palm (vCal) or Macintosh OS X iCal (iCal). New Need/Have Ride to EventCome join fellow Cornell hockey fans as we cheer on the Sharks! The team in teal takes on Western Division...
BU swimmers swept at Cornell - Press & Sun
Original at Press & Sun-Bulletin
• Wed, Nov 30
BU swimmers swept at Cornell Both the Binghamton University men's and women's swimming teams came up on the losing end Wednesday in dual meets at Cornell University. ... Cornell Swimming Squads Play Host to Binghamton CSTV.com Swimming Squads Play Host to Binghamton Cornell Daily Sun