The following is an abridged version of an open letter that was sent to President Hunter R. Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin: To the editor: As the committee charged by your office to advise Cornell's administration on the…
The following is an abridged version of an open letter that was sent to President Hunter R. Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin:To the editor:As the committee charged by your office to advise Cornell's administration on the proper…
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
To the editor: Your article on campus construction ("FAQ: How a busy construction season, from Thurston bridge to Hoy garage, will affect traffic and parking on campus," March 16 Chronicle) was useful. However, it focused mainly…
Christopher K. Ober, the Francis Norwood Bard Professor of Materials Engineering at Cornell, has been named the winner of the 2006 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Applied Polymer Science. The award honors him for "his…
NEW YORK -- Give actors just four minutes, and they will give you comedy, drama, even a song. That is what 50 actors did Friday through Sunday, March 10-12, for Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance faculty in the…
Someday, so the dream goes, all the knowledge in the world will be on the Internet. In the spirit of "think globally, act locally," a great deal of knowledge about Cornell University is accumulating in an online repository called…
A special 10-foot sound cube will be in the Kenneth Goldman Lounge of the Duffield Hall atrium Thursday, March 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., offering a unique, multichannel immersive sound environment. The MorrowSound Cube, a 3-D…
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
For postdoctoral researchers -- scientists who work in the "nomad's land" between the long grind of graduate school and long-term employment -- Cornell University has been ranked by The Scientist magazine as one of the best…
Cornell University was honored for its planned energy-efficient combined heat-and-power project (CHP) by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the International District Energy Association's (IDEA) 19th Annual Campus…
As the Chinese media become more independent, public and Communist Party officials and even companies are filing successful defamation suits in the courts as a way to muffle opinion, said Benjamin Liebman, a law professor at…
