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29 unusual facts about Cornell University


Babatunde Osotimehin

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

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.

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.

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.

Craig Hawker

Jumping into the world of polymer chemistry, he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Jean Fréchet at Cornell University from 1988 to 1990 and then returned to the University of Queensland as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1991 to 1993.

Davydd Greenwood

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

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.

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mordechai Liebling

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University and Master of Arts in the history of American civilization, specializing in American progressive movements, from Brandeis University.

Paedophryne swiftorum

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

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.

Tara Iyer

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

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.


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.

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.

Browning Society

The earliest Browning Society, and the longest continuing, was formally constituted in 1877 by Hiram Corson at Cornell University.

Carillon

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

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.

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.

Curtis Chillingworth

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gerard Salton

Gerard "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 in Nuremberg – 28 August 1995), was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.

Heckmondwike Grammar School

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

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 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.

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.

IRobot Create

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

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.

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 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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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).

The Cornell Lunatic

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

Thomas F. Fennell

Thomas Francis Fennell II, (March 1, 1904 – May 23, 1991) was an American football player and boxer at 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.

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.