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26 unusual facts about Cornell University


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.

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.

Carlos Mendoza Davis

He entered graduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States and received a Master of Laws (LLM) in 1995 with a research paper entitled The violation of human rights in third world countries as a reason for the imposition of economic sanctions. In 2002, he won a Chevening Scholarship from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, provided by the British Council.

Chinwoke Mbadinuju

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

CTAG

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

Davydd Greenwood

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

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.

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.

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.

Franco Selleri

He had numerous visiting professorships and fellowships, including CERN, Saclay, University of Nebraska, Cornell University, and Dubna.

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.

Frederick Campion Steward

A Rockefeller Foundation fellowship took him first to Cornell University in 1924 and then to the University of California at Berkeley four years later.

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.

Heckmondwike Grammar School

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

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

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

James DeWitt Hill

He subsequently studied civil engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, but he was unable to complete that course because of ill-health.

James H. Southard

Born near Toledo, Ohio, in Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Southard attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1874.

Learn To Be

As of March 2011, students Stephen Lane and Odis Ponce are starting a chapter at Cornell University.

Lee Iu-cheung

Concerned about the floods ravaging the Guangdong Province, Lee left for Cornell University in the United States to undertake a special study on River Conservancy and Sanitary engineering in 1919.

Louis Charles Roudanez

He returned to the U.S. and enrolled in medical school again, either at Dartmouth College or Cornell University.

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.

My Ishmael

Owens educated himself as much as he could, studying in Belgium, becoming a dual citizen of Zaire and Belgium, traveling to the United States, and attending Cornell University, where he met the daughter of Ishmael's benefactor and first human companion.

Perley Ason Ross

Born in Panacea, Missouri he was awarded his PhD from Stanford University in 1911, becoming a full professor there in 1927, after a year at 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.

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.

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.


1970 Pulitzer Prize

Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany, New York Bureau, for his news photo taken of militant black students following their takeover of Willard Straight Hall Cornell University, Campus Guns.

Alberto Carlos Taquini

He also sered as Visiting Professor in prestigious institutions around the world, including: the University of California, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Michigan, and Cornell, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, the University of Milan, the University of San Marcos in Peru, and the University of Chile.

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.

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.

Conservation in the United States

The largest section of the reserve was later renamed Shoshone National Forest, and it is the oldest National Forest in the U.S. But it was not until 1898 when German forester Dr. Carl A. Schenck, on the Biltmore Estate, and Cornell University founded the first two forestry schools, both run by Germans.

D. R. Fulkerson

He was then with the mathematics department at the RAND Corporation until 1971 when he moved to Cornell University as the Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering.

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.

Edris Rice-Wray Carson

She attended Cornell University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, and had a long career as a public health doctor, primarily in Central America and Mexico.

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.

Engineering, Science, and Management War Training

During 1940, Cornell University started courses in aircraft structures and stress analysis at Buffalo, New York, for Bell Aircraft and Curtis Wright.

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.

George K. James

George Kepford 'Lefty' James (Lower Allen, Penn., Apr. 12, 1905 - Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 9, 1994) was an American football head coach at Cornell University from 1947 to 1960.

Gib Cool

A native of Pittston, Pennsylvania, Cool attended the Wyoming Seminary, the Sturgis Tutoring School and the Manlius Academy before enrolling in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University.

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.

Henrique de Curitiba

In 1981 Morozowicz received the Master's Degree at the Cornell University and the Ithaca College in New York, under guidance of Karel Husa, and became a well-known and recognised composer as "Henrique de Curitiba".

Henry Bruère

At Cornell University, Bruere joined the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and through that organization was a member of the Irving Literary Society, all before transferring to the University of Chicago to complete his undergraduate studies.

Henry Henne

He was a professor at the International Christian University, Tokyo from 1958 to 1963, at Cornell University from 1963 to 1965, at the International Christian University, Tokyo from 1965 to 1966, at the University of Oslo from 1966 to 1981 and the University of Bergen from 1981 to 1988.

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.

IRobot Create

The iRobot Create and a simulator developed in MATLAB are used in the Autonomous Mobile Robots course at Cornell University.

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 Zakour

Before becoming a writer he worked for many years as a database programmer/web guy for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, which is part of Cornell University.

Kate Snow

A native of Burnt Hills, Saratoga County, New York, Snow graduated in 1991 from Cornell University, where she majored in communication, was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, and a newscaster on WVBR.

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.

Mike French

Michael "Mike" G. French was a three-time All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, teaming with fellow lacrosse Hall of Fame members Eamon McEneaney, Dan Mackesey, Bill Marino, Tom Marino, Bob Hendrickson, Chris Kane, and Richie Moran to lead the Cornell Big Red to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976.

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.

Mustafa F. Özbilgin

He holds visiting professorships at Panthéon-Assas University, St Gallen University, Cornell University, Japan Institute of Labour Policy, CEPS-INSTEAD, and Istanbul Bilgi University among others.

Oscar Tschirky

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

Paleontological Research Institution

PRI is affiliated with Cornell University, houses one of the largest fossil collections in North America, and publishes, among other things, the oldest journal of paleontology in the western hemisphere, Bulletins of American Paleontology.

PL/I

A compiler developed at Cornell University for teaching a dialect called PL/C, had the unusual capability of never failing to compile any program, through the use of extensive automatic correction of many syntax errors and by converting any remaining syntax errors to output statements.

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).

Robert Lewis Morgan

Morgan received an A.B. from Cornell University, an M.A. from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, an M.P.H. from the Columbia University School of Public Health, was awarded an M.D. from the St. George's University School of Medicine and is a Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University in Epidemiology.

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.

Simon Raab

He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a Masters of Engineering Physics (Surface Physics) from Cornell University, USA, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Susan Perlman

Dr. Perlman received her B.S. in Biochemistry in 1971 from Cornell University and her MD in 1975 from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook.

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.

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.

Ujala Shanker

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

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.

Z-pinch

They can be found in various institutions such as University of Nevada, Reno (USA), Cornell University (USA), University of Michigan (USA), Sandia National Laboratories (USA), University of California, San Diego (USA), University of Washington (USA), Ruhr University (Germany), Imperial College (United Kingdom), École Polytechnique (France), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).