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29 unusual facts about Cornell university


Antony Fisher

F. A. Harper of the FEE introduced Fisher to former colleagues from the Agriculture Department of Cornell University, who showed him intensive chicken farming techniques with which Fisher was very impressed.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Fellow in Endocrinology, Cornell University Graduate School of Medicine, New York, United States, 1979–1980

Biljana Plavšić

She is a Fulbright Scholar, and as such she spent two years at Boyce-Thompson institute at Cornell University in New York doing botany research.

Capital punishment in Texas

Texas may have a much lower rate of death sentencing than other states, according to a study by Cornell University faculty members.

Chinwoke Mbadinuju

He obtained a BA in Political Science, and a doctorate in Government from Cornell University.

Christophe Moyreau

Contemporary sources also mention a treatise by Moyreau, Petit abrégé des principes de musique par demandes et réponses (1753), which has been conserved at Orléans (Médiathèque), at the Cornell University of Ithaca and at the Newberry Library of Chicago (USA).

Citymeals-on-Wheels

Supper Meals - A joint study with Cornell University recently identified 14% of Citymeals’ clients as at risk for malnutrition.

College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.

CTAG

It is developed by the Energy and Environmental Research Laboratory ( EERL) at Cornell University.

David B. Wingate

This spurred him on to study Zoology at Cornell University, returning to take on the challenge of saving the Cahow in 1958.

Dolorimeter

In 1940, James D. Hardy, Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell of Cornell University introduced the first dolorimeter as a method for evaluating the effectiveness of analgesic medications.

Federico Ortiz Quezada

He finished his training in urology at the General Hospital of Mexico City and Cornell University in New York, from 1959 to 1963.

François Frenkiel

He came to the States in 1947 and was associated successively with Cornell University, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and, from 1960 until his retirement, with the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center.

Harriette Cole

Cole has provided presentation and empowerment workshops for businesses and institutions, including Speaking of Women's Health, Kraft, the Saralee Corporation, Cornell University, the National Urban League, National Action Network, Jack & Jill of America, Delta Sigma Theta and more.

Houston Christian High School

Student matriculation after their time at HC includes top universities in Texas and throughout the nation including but not limited to Davidson College, Texas A&M University, University of Texas, Cornell University, Vanderbilt University, and UVA.

Houston Methodist Hospital

Primarily affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the hospital directs millions of dollars into research and advances in patient care.

Ida Bagus Made

In 2001, a posthumous solo exhibition was held at the Herbert Johnson Museum of the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Ivor G. Balding

He moved to the United States in 1930 where he attended Cornell University.

J.M. McDonald

Upon his death, Mr. McDonald bequeathed the nucleus of the McDonald Farms herd of 365 head to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, to be maintained for a long-time breeding research program.

Michael Shur

Shur has held research or faculty positions at the A.F. Ioffe Institute, Wayne State University, Oakland University, Cornell University, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the University of Minnesota.

Peter Chelsom

From 1985-98 he ran the television film course at Central School of Drama and later taught at both the Actors' Institute and Cornell University.

Philippine Commission

On January 20, 1899, President McKinley appointed the First Philippine Commission (the Schurman Commission), a five-person group headed by Dr. Jacob Schurman, president of Cornell University, to investigate conditions in the islands and make recommendations.

Psychrotrophic bacteria

According to The Food Science Department at Cornell University, psychrotrophs are bacteria capable of growth at temperatures at or less than 7°C (44.6°F).

Royal Thai Air Force Bases

The following data is taken from what appears to be a working paper summary of the United States Operations Mission (USOM) in Thailand dated 1968, found at the Cornell University Library "Pamphlet HC Thailand 370" 3-1924-007-619-574.

Tara Iyer

During early 2010s, her younger brother, Venkat Iyer, has also been studying in the US, at New York's Cornell University.

Thomas Wilson Spence

A member of the “Ohio Five” matriculating at Cornell University during that institution’s early years, counselor Spence died suddenly, aged 65, on February 23, 1912 while making oral argument in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Chambers at Madison, Wisconsin.

Tumbes Swallow

More extensive data, on which the following account is based, is from research teams from Cornell University and the Golondrinas de las Americas project in 2010-2011; data from this project are consistent with the initial.

Victor Cardoza

He was born in Waterdown, Ontario, the son of George C. Cardoza and Florence E. Govier, and was educated at the Digby Academy and at Cornell University.

WikiCandidate

Begun by students and faculty at the Cornell University Department of Communication, its content was intended to be a tool for understanding what characteristics the ideal candidate would have, as determined through a consensus among the community of users.


Alexander Kopylov

A copy of his String Quartet No.2 in F, Op.23 (published by Belyayev in 1894), which is conserved at the Cornell University Library, has notations in the margin of the first violin part from a performance with Eugène Ysaÿe.

Allyn Abbott Young

From 1913 to 1920 he was professor at Cornell University, but war took him to Washington DC in 1917 to direct the Bureau of Statistical Research for the War Trade Board, and to New York in 1918 to head the economics division of a group known as "The Enquiry" under Colonel Edward M. House, the group charged with laying the groundwork for the Paris Peace Conference.

Carillon

Cornell University is home to the Cornell Chimes, one of the most frequently played set of bells on any American college campus.

Charles Brady King

King was first sent to Trinity College in Port Hope (Ontario) for two years, then went to Cascadilla School in Ithaca, New York, for preparation for entrance to Cornell University.

Cornell Notes

The Cornell note-taking system is a note-taking system devised in the 1950s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University.

CourseInfo

CourseInfo LLC, one of the two companies forming Blackboard Inc. was founded in 1997 by Daniel Cane and Stephen Gilfus while at Cornell University.

David Allan Young

He then taught science at the Louisville Public School System and later studied entomology at the Cornell University and obtained a Master of Science in 1942.

Davydd Greenwood

Davydd Greenwood (b. 1942) is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University.

E. E. Jones

Only three outside schools have provided Georgia with more than one head coach in football: Princeton (Jones and William A. Reynolds), Cornell University (Pop Warner and Gordon Saussy), and Brown University (Charles McCarthy, James Coulter, and Frank Dobson).

Edith Efron

In their 1993 history of TV Guide, Changing Channels: America in TV Guide, Cornell professors Glenn C. Altschuler and David I. Grossvogel have stated that "no writer...did more to shape TV Guide," a publication that reached over 40 million readers at the time.

Eleanor Jorden

Jorden taught Japanese at many educational institutions, including Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, Williams College, the University of Hawaii, International Christian University in Tokyo and Ohio State University.

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a book by Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall.

Finger Lakes AVA

A major change in Finger Lakes viticulture occurred when Dr. Konstantin Frank, a Ukrainian immigrant with a PhD in Plant Science, came to work for the Cornell University Geneva Experiment station in 1951.

Frank Spitzer

Spitzer's first academic appointments were at the California Institute of Technology (1953–1958), but most of his academic career was spent at Cornell University, with leaves at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden.

H. Morse Stephens

Stephens emigrated to the United States in 1894 and took the position of Professor at Cornell University in the Department of History, where he taught European History.

Harris J. Ryan

Harris J. Ryan (January 8, 1866 - July 3, 1934) was an American electrical engineer and a professor first at Cornell University and later at Stanford University.

Harry Falkenau

He also joined both the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Irving Literary Society.

Heckmondwike Grammar School

Frederick Campion Steward FRS, Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences from 1965-72 at Cornell University

Hiram Sibley

Sibley funded the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, as well as the building which housed it, Sibley Hall, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

The HOOPS 3D Graphics System was originally developed in the mid-1980s in the CAD Lab at Cornell University.

James A. A. Pierre

His tenure as Attorney General of Liberia was marked by his close association and identification with the Liberian Government/Cornell University Codification Project under the directorship of the late Professor Milton R. Konvitz.

James L. Reveal

Reveal is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, adjunct professor at Cornell University's Department of Plant Biology and honorary curator at the New York Botanical Garden.

Jewelle Gomez

She's been a member of the board of the Cornell University Human Sexuality Archives and the advisory board of the James Hormel LGBT Center of the main San Francisco Public Library.

John Sidel

He received his Bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MA in Political Science in 1988 from Yale University, where he worked closely with James C. Scott, and he received his PhD in 1995 from Cornell University, where he worked under the supervision of Benedict Anderson.

Jorge de la Vega

De la Vega received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Cornell University in 1965 and worked there as a visiting professor and artist.

Lavender Foal Syndrome

Research into the genetics of LFS has been conducted at the University of California, Davis and Cornell University in the United States, the University of Queensland in Australia and the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Marc P. Keane

Keane has worked as a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Design at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and at Cornell University, and is a fellow at the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art, Kyoto, Japan, and the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, New York.

Mia Korf

Korf grew up in Ithaca, NY, and attended Cornell University, where she lived in Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Morris County School of Technology

Graduates of MCST have gone on to schools related to their academies, such as Johnson and Wales University, New York University, Cornell University, Tisch School of the Arts and Boston College.

Moses Coit Tyler

He became professor of English language and literature in the university of Michigan in 1867, and held that position until 1881, except in 1873-1874 when he was literary editor of the Christian Union; from 1881 until his death at Ithaca, New York, he was professor of American history at Cornell University and chairman of the Department of History.

ORCID

Others are research institutions (among them Caltech and Cornell University), commercial companies including Thomson Reuters, academic societies and a charitable foundation, the Wellcome Trust.

Oscar Tschirky

Cornell University holds the Oscar Tschirky papers and his noted collection of menus (Cornell University School of Hotel Administration).

Reesa Greenberg

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2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.

Ronald Sackville

Sackville has held many academic posts, including visiting appointments at McGill University (Montreal), Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University (New York), Cornell University (New York) and New York University.

Rosalinda Baldoz

She had received two scholarships grants in industrial relations: a Colombo Plan scholarship in Australia and a US Agency for International Development (USAID) scholarship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

Social Science Japan Journal

SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), and J. Victor Koschmann (Cornell University).

Taiwan–United States relations

and the first ever Direct Election of the Presidency of Republic of China in 1996 and President Lee Teng-hui's 1995 visit to Cornell University of the United States that incurred the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and the US intervention by deploying two aircraft carrier battlegroups near Taiwan Strait amid missile tests by People's Liberation Army in the nearby coastal provinces of People's Republic of China.

Thomas D. O'Rourke

He joined the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity at Cornell, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.

Ujala Shanker

2011: Finalist at 'BoP Narrative Competition' hosted by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University sponsored by USAID and IFC

Virginia Dwan

the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; the Weatherspoon Art Museum; and the Des Moines Art Center.

Wenying Zhuang

Wenying studied Plant Pathology in Department of Agronomy at the Shanxi Agricultural College (now Shanxi Agricultural University) from 1973 to 1975, smd then entered Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where she received a Master of Science degree in Mycology in 1985 She continued graduate study in Mycology at Cornell University, earning a Ph.D in 1987, under Richard P. Korf.

William Henry Long

Under the guidance of George F. Atkinson, Long performed field work at Cornell University, which eventually led to a PhD degree awarded from the University of Texas in 1917.