Federal government forms now allow people to officially identify with up to six different racial groups -- a fundamental change that is designed for multiracial categorization.
Thomas W. Simons Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and Poland, returns as the Provost's Visiting Professor at Cornell and will deliver a lecture titled 'Islam and the West Since Iraq' on Feb. 21.
The newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, will deliver a public lecture at Cornell on Feb. 23, at 2:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Auditorium on campus.
The Honorable Elena Poptodorova, the ambassador from the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States, is visiting the Cornell campus this week to deliver public lectures and meet with community members, university students, faculty members and administrators.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There are some computer problems so hard that computer scientists consider them out of reach. They label them "intractable" and move on. But researchers at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., have developed tools to solve such problems, at least in certain practical situations. Mostly their approach is to have the computer do what a human being might do: stop, go back and start over and try something different.
For the first time, advanced neurological imaging suggests the brains of minimally conscious patients recognize and respond to speech in ways similar to healthy individuals, according to a team of researchers. (Feb. 7, 2005)
Cornell's Vice President Tommy Bruce has issued the following statement on the Northwest Airlines agreement to bring new air service to Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.
Two of the largest machines ever conceived by scientists will be described today by one of the world's leading experts on particle colliders, the massive and expensive machines used to explore inner space by smashing particles together at super-fast speeds.
Actress and public speaker Yolanda King will return to campus to deliver the Cornell University Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture titled "Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Discovering the Power of Diversity," on Feb. 15, at 5 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
Fitted with its new compound eye on the heavens, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory telescope, the world's largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, early tomorrow morning begins a years-long survey of distant galaxies, perhaps discovering elusive "dark galaxies" -- galaxies that are devoid of stars.
In 1996, Cornell historian Nick Salvatore began a scholarly journey that led him into the life and times of the legendary C. L. Franklin (1915 to 1984), father of Aretha and arguably the greatest African American preacher of his generation.
Cornell will present a seminar, 'The Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami: The Science Behind the Headlines,' Feb. 10, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in room B14 of Hollister Hall.
