Bernard Gittelman, who helped design the first colliding beam device in the 1950s, died Nov. 25. The cause of death was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS and Lou Gehrig's Disease).
Decade of Challenge: This article looks at how transportation planners are working to address problems of making campus both parking- and commuter-friendly. (Nov. 30, 2006)
While hybrids -- the result of the mating of two different species -- may offer interesting and beneficial traits, they are usually sterile or unable to survive. For example, a mule, the result of the mating of a horse and a…
An interdisciplinary symposium of Cornell faculty will help launch the 2006-07 Department of Labor-Alliance of Prevention of Unemployment (DOL-APU) student internship program Friday, Dec. 1, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the School of…
Israeli elder statesman and former prime minister Shimon Peres stressed the role of science, technology and innovation in a global economy as a key to peace in the Middle East in a public lecture in Bailey Hall on Nov. 28. …
Contemporary composer Steve Reich -- pronounced WRY-sh -- is having a good year.In addition to tributes at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Cornell alumnus, Class of '57, who turned 70 on Oct…
Charles H.K. Williamson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a popular Cornell teacher, has been named New York state's top professor by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council…
Nathan Poffenbarger, a suspended sophomore in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations who stabbed a visiting Union College student on West Campus early this year, pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime Nov. 22 in…
With 300,000 Sudanese dead, a third of the population displaced and cries of genocide ringing fiercely, the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, has recently come to the forefront of the international political scene.
The Meinig Family Cornell National Scholars has announced its Excellence in Leadership Awards recognizing nine of its students for their exceptionally strong and successful leadership. The recipients from this past academic year…
Patricia Baron Pollak, Cornell associate professor of policy analysis and management and director of graduate studies for community and rural development, was honored with the 2006 Margarita McCoy Award.