Cornell Cinema will present "Performing Race on Screen," a series of five films from the 1920s and 1930s featuring Paul Robeson, Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker, all performers of color who became internationally famous for…
Kathy Ramsey has a weakness for Sudoku puzzles. So when she glanced at the enticing 25-by-25 square published in the March 2 issue of the Cornell Chronicle (which appeared with a story about Cornell physicist Veit Elser's work on X-ray diffraction microscopy), she figured she would toy with it in her spare time. (March 28, 2006)
A Cornell University astronomer is using new data on cosmic microwave background radiation to visualize what happened in the first two-trillionths of a second after the big bang and to try to explain the 'dark energy' that is making the universe expand faster than expected.
They run some of the top hotels, restaurants and travel-related companies in the world. But for the 200-plus alumni of Cornell's School of Hotel Administration who will be among the guests at this year's Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC)…
The president of a migrant farmworkers union and a leader of a community organization helping poor and moderate-income families in post-Katrina New Orleans are among the featured speakers at Union Days 2006. The annual event,…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will give the 2006 Rudin Lecture on American Culture on Wednesday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on campus. Robinson's talk, "The Ghost in the…
In Ensemble X's April Fool's Day concert, all is not as it seems. Coded messages, double meanings, pandemonium and musical mishaps abound. The free is concert on Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.
Kathleen M. Rasmussen, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University, will be the first recipient of the Excellence in Nutrition Education Award from the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) on April 2 in San Francisco…
Madhura Kulkarni, a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in natural resources, has been named one of two 2006 Emerging Public Policy Leaders by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), a Washington-based nonprofit scientific…
Cornell professor emerita of design and environmental analysis Madeline Comer Blum, born May 20, 1909, in Osage, Okla., died March 20 in Hemet, Calif., of a heart attack. She was 96. Blum joined the Cornell faculty in 1955 in…
An enzyme previously associated with preventing the dementia of Alzheimer's disease now appears to play an even bigger role in safeguarding against the disease, bringing the promise of new targets for drug therapies. While…
