Cornell undergraduates with a passion for social change can exercise their instincts for community service and receive credits through the new Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels Undergraduate Action Research Fellowship Program.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Using spectral tools for infrared and submillimeter wave observations, astronomers are looking for the building blocks of life in all the right places: where there might be oxygen and where it is wet.
SAN FRANCISCO -- If California energy officials had paid closer attention to mathematics and the commodities market yesterday, much of the state could be experiencing less of an energy crisis today. A systematic use of market contracts, called options, purchased before the crisis happened, might have alleviated it, says Philip Protter, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Protter stresses that it is unclear why new types of options, called energy derivatives, were not used to good effect. This, he says, could have been the fault of regulators, or utilities themselves, "or the inadequacies of what is, after all, a new kind of market."
In 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, a pioneering exposure of the hazards of the pesticide DDT, became one of the most influential books in the history of science and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.
Despite recent efforts by Washington to turn pathogens into panaceas, Russia's once-immense biological weapons program continues to be a cause for anxiety.
Researchers are using nanotechnology to build microscopic silicon devices with features comparable in size to DNA, proteins and other biological molecules – to count molecules, analyze them, separate them, perhaps even work with them one at a time.
James Garbarino, the E.L. Vincent Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, will give the 2001 Bernard Yudowitz Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the MacDonald Moot Court Room in the Cornell Law School's Myron Taylor Hall.
The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. will deliver Cornell University's second Martin Luther King Jr. lecture this month at 4:30 p.m. in Sage Chapel on Thursday, Feb 22. Lawson's talk is titled "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
Make a molecule out of candy, produce ooze or dissect a floppy disk. All three activities will be possible at Engineering Day at Pyramid Mall, Lansing, Saturday, Feb. 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The committee for the 2001 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 13, 2001.
How do rain, sea salts, dust, plants, climate and time affect the chemistry of soil? At what threshold, for example, does the role of rain dramatically change the soil chemistry?
