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23 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.

Chinwoke Mbadinuju

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

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.

Curtis Chillingworth

He married Marjorie M. McKinley, a Cornell University student and daughter of old friends of the Chillingworth family.

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.

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.

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.

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

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

Horace Mann Jr.

His own herbarium was purchased by Cornell University and became the basis of that university's collection.

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.

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.

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.

Ogilbia suarezae

It was named in honor of Susan Suarez, a professor at Cornell University, in recognition of her careful study of the reproductive biology of the related fish Ogilbia cayorum.

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.

Plínio de Arruda Sampaio

In 1970, he moved to the United States, where he worked at the FAO and at the IDB in Washington, before beginning a master's degree in agricultural economics at Cornell University.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Fa Hien Cave

The human remains from the different levels were taken to the Human Biology Laboratory at Cornell University, where they were studied by Dr Kenneth A. R. Kennedy and one of his graduate students, Joanne L. Zahorsky.

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.

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.

Heckmondwike Grammar School

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

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.

Ivor G. Balding

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

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.

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.

Louis Charles Roudanez

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

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.

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.

Mike Iggulden

Undrafted, and after five seasons playing for Canada's Ridley College prep school, Iggulden came to Cornell University in 2001, where he enrolled in Cornell's school of hotel executive administration management studies.

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

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.

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.

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.

Paedophryne swiftorum

Paedophryne swiftorum was first discovered by a student on a 2008 Cornell University expedition to Papua New Guinea.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Samir Khuller

Khuller obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and was awarded a PhD in 1990 from Cornell University as a student of Vijay Vazirani.

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.

Small-world experiment

In 1998, Duncan J. Watts and Steven Strogatz from Cornell University published the first network model on the small-world phenomenon.

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).

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.

The Cornell Lunatic

The Cornell Lunatic, the college humor magazine at Cornell University, was founded on April 1, 1978, by Joey Green.

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.