Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced the reappointment of Susan A. Henry as the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for a five-year term.
About 500 people – alumni, friends, students and faculty at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell are taking part in the official grand opening of the Robert A. and Jan M. Beck Center addition to Statler Hall.
Cornell researchers have demonstrated for the first time a device that allows one low-powered beam of light to switch another on and off on silicon, a key component for future 'photonic' microchips in which light replaces electrons.
Somewhere at major research institutions like Cornell University is precisely the technology resource that small, innovative companies might need to jump-start new projects.
In the 1930s, Cornell had a Johnny Appleseed of nuts. Horticulturist Lawrence H. MacDaniels, known as 'Dr. Mac,' planted or grafted hundreds of nut trees, including hickory, walnut, chestnut, pecan and filbert, in a remote corner of the Cornell campus.
Between the voter and the candidate stands the machine. The voting machine, that is. In a presidential race where every vote counts, how those votes are getting counted is the subject of increasing public scrutiny.
Environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy will take part in a lecture-presentation titled "Documenting Andy Goldsworthy's Early Ephemeral Work: An Interview with Andy Goldsworthy," on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium.
Cornell will honor the memory of alumnus Leo Frank, Class of 1906, with an art opening, a talk and a movie on Oct. 25, Oct. 28, and Nov. 1. All events are free and open to the public.
With modern computing power, data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service, law enforcement agencies and other sources can be combined to answer important public policy questions. The trick is to do this without violating people's privacy.
Juan González, street-smart scholar and columnist for the New York Daily News , will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press lecture Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
