Some Cornell related articles in today's D&C: Carl Sagan's former home, the tomb-like Sphinx Head building on Stewart Avenue, also once owned by physicist Robert Wilson, was sold for $2 million. Jane Goodall, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, and Bill Nye '77 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Also, an article about Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, and later an ILR faculty member until her death in 1965. In other ILR news, Larry Mancuso, assistant dean for HR until he took a leave in October, murdered his daughter and mother-in-law and killed himself in Brighton, a Rochester suburb.
Quote from: George64Some Cornell related articles in today's D&C: Carl Sagan's former home, the tomb-like Sphinx Head building on Stewart Avenue, also once owned by physicist Robert Wilson, was sold for $2 million. Jane Goodall, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, and Bill Nye '77 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Also, an article about Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, and later an ILR faculty member until her death in 1965. In other ILR news, Larry Mancuso, assistant dean for HR until he took a leave in October, murdered his daughter and mother-in-law and killed himself in Brighton, a Rochester suburb.
Apparently Sagan and Druyan had already destroyed the house by ripping out all the interesting original architectural features in some sort of pathetic STEMie adultery frenzy.
The guy who bought is a scrap metal billionaire (artist's conception (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmYwZTRiYmYtOWYyOS00NWZiLTg2ZjAtNDU3MjM5NTQ1ZTNlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXRyYW5zY29kZS13b3JrZmxvdw@@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR10,0,500,281_.jpg)) so hey at least it's going back up in the world.
Quote from: George64In other ILR news, Larry Mancuso, assistant dean for HR until he took a leave in October, murdered his daughter and mother-in-law and killed himself in Brighton, a Rochester suburb.
Yikes! (https://www.whec.com/top-news/man-who-police-say-killed-his-daughter-her-grandmother-and-himself-was-a-cornell-assistant-dean/) (It happened about two and half miles from my house.)
Terrible news!
Excerpted from the Rochester D&C -
The University of Rochester is one of 13 universities that on Tuesday sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and agency officials over the research cuts. Cornell University also is among those suing, along with the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the American Council on Education.
The University of Rochester estimates it could lose more than $40 million in federal funding in the fiscal year if cuts remain. Cornell estimates its loss at about $42 million . . . At issue are what are known as "indirect costs" - largely overhead and administrative expenses - covered in part by NIH.
"If the facility administrative costs are cut very, very severely as was announced by the NIH, laboratories would literally go dark," former Cornell President Dr. David Skorton, now president of the Association of American Medical College, said in an interview with "Scientific American."
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They are so shortsighted in how NIH gets them research at a very low cost.
And so many fields are doing research, it causes problems in 100s of areas.
also these are deals that were done and signed off on for multi yr funding. Money spent to ramp, buy materials, get labs built.
hundreds of thousands of jobs go dark when this happens.
The stupidity is the point. This is the Mongols burning the House of Wisdom. Any knowledge that disagrees with Dump is heresy. Any that agrees with Him is redundant.
Sean Carroll recently talked about how European professors are advising their smartest science students not to attend American universities. The Apotheosis of the Asshats is going to cost this country dearly. And the ones who are closest to the line of indigency, who have only hitherto been saved by Uncle Sugar's largesse, are about to find out who the real welfare queens always were.
Apropos, excellent op ed (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-public-health-funding-nih.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) by Nobelist Harold Varmus, MD, the Lewis Thomas Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell and director of the NIH under Clinton.
Quote from: George64Excerpted from the Rochester D&C -
The University of Rochester is one of 13 universities that on Tuesday sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and agency officials over the research cuts. Cornell University also is among those suing, along with the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the American Council on Education.
The University of Rochester estimates it could lose more than $40 million in federal funding in the fiscal year if cuts remain. Cornell estimates its loss at about $42 million . . . At issue are what are known as "indirect costs" - largely overhead and administrative expenses - covered in part by NIH.
"If the facility administrative costs are cut very, very severely as was announced by the NIH, laboratories would literally go dark," former Cornell President Dr. David Skorton, now president of the Association of American Medical College, said in an interview with "Scientific American."
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A related and interesting article in today's D&C, "Trump's mandated cuts to federal scientific research matter to you," that very briefly mentions Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi '19, who discovered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
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Quote from: George64Quote from: George64Excerpted from the Rochester D&C -
The University of Rochester is one of 13 universities that on Tuesday sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and agency officials over the research cuts. Cornell University also is among those suing, along with the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the American Council on Education.
The University of Rochester estimates it could lose more than $40 million in federal funding in the fiscal year if cuts remain. Cornell estimates its loss at about $42 million . . . At issue are what are known as "indirect costs" - largely overhead and administrative expenses - covered in part by NIH.
"If the facility administrative costs are cut very, very severely as was announced by the NIH, laboratories would literally go dark," former Cornell President Dr. David Skorton, now president of the Association of American Medical College, said in an interview with "Scientific American."
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A related and interesting article in today's D&C, "Trump's mandated cuts to federal scientific research matter to you," that very briefly mentions Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi '19, who discovered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
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And, of course, Mandy Cohen '00, MD from the Yale and a graduate degree in public health from Harvard, is out as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Probably too qualified.
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