A two-year, $200,000 grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) will help a Cornell mechanical engineer design smaller, faster and cheaper devices for processing and producing proteins.
The next great phase of research in the biological sciences is burgeoning at the crossroads where chemistry meets biology. To explore this cutting-edge interdisciplinary nexus, Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology will host a symposium.
Cornell's commitment to diversity and inclusiveness includes areas protected by federal and state law, such as race, religion, sex, disability, veteran status and age, as well as areas protected under local law, such as sexual orientation and ex-offender status.
On April 14, Armstrong, a former Catholic nun who has written numerous books on religion, presented this year's Frederick C. Wood Lecture in Sage Chapel as part of the 75th anniversary of Cornell United Religious Work.
Steven Stucky's most commercially successful work to date is an arrangement of a piece written by a man who died 400 years ago -- Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary."
The centennial year for Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will come to a close Friday, April 29, with "The Golden Age of Innovation" -- a symposium featuring major contributors to human health, nutrition and education.
Jaffa Panken, a senior history major from Baltimore, Md., was one of 85 students nationwide to receive the 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Jaffa Panken, a senior history major from Baltimore, Md., was one of 85 students nationwide to receive the 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and a Democratic primary candidate for president in 2004, will address Cornell University's annual Senior Convocation for graduating students and their families, Saturday, May 28.
Many well-intentioned parents dutifully buckle their youngsters into seat belts and car seats designed for children. But some youngsters are too small for seat belts -- and not every car seat is safe or legal for children to use.
In a provocative and often-humorous guest sermon, "So Far, So Good, So What?," on April 10, the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes discussed the past, present and future of Sage Chapel and expressed his views on the role that religion plays at modern universities.
