Maury Tigner, who two decades ago helped design and build the half-mile-circumference accelerator at Cornell, has been named the next director of the operator of the huge device, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, one of the world's leading centers for elementary particle research.
An oversized, flatter and adjustable computer mouse with built-in palm support could lower the risk for carpal tunnel syndrome and other wrist injuries, according to a new study by Cornell University ergonomists.
The Cornell women's ice hockey team has snazzy new uniforms, thanks to the creativity of a class of undergraduate students in textiles and apparel in the university's College of Human Ecology.
Cornell's campus campaign for United Way of Tompkins County is the first and only United Way division this year to meet - and even exceed - its goal. As of Dec. 15, the university had raised $562,831.
People with disabilities - one in six of us - must surmount workplace obstacles that those without disabilities never even notice, everything from inaccessible work spaces to indifferent, or even intolerant, colleagues.
Two Cornell interior design classes didn't just build scale models, but the real thing - indoor play zones for child-care centers. The undergraduates planned, designed and built four child-care learning and play activity centers, or mini-playgrounds.
At the stroke of year 2000, celebrants throughout the Northeast might be dreaming of a white New Year's Day. Likely their dreams will come true -- if they are in Caribou, Maine, the Finger Lakes region of New York, or Burlington, Vt., according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Imagine that it's a frigid 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Salt trucks are out on the roads, and children are building snowmen. It's a perfect day to harvest lettuce.
A $40,000 grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will help the Cornell University Library conserve and catalog some 15,000 historic architectural photographs in the Andrew Dickson White Photograph Collection.
A symposium will be held at Cornell Dec. 10 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) and the associated research facilities.
Alexander V. Rau, a Cornell senior majoring in physics, is one of 40 students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for at least two years of study in the United Kingdom.
Among the holiday treasures adorning the White House this season are two dozen miniature bound books created by the staff at Cornell University Library's Preservation and Conservation Department.
