Undergraduate and graduate students in landscape architecture and city and regional planning developed their computer-generated design strategies for a group of citizens concerned over a new waterfront zoning being implemented by the New York City Planning Department for Greenpoint Terminal.
Complex computing problems as different as modeling Earth's climate system, predicting effects of regulatory change in the dairy industry or serving a semester's worth of lecture videos to student dormitories will operate on a scalable distributed network of powerful desktop computers, thanks in part to a $6 million grant from Intel Corp. to Cornell.
Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi, two influential architects who have made their marks designing urban parks and cities, will deliver the 1997 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
Cornell alumni will revisit their alma mater the weekend of Sept. 20-22 for Homecoming 1996, the university's annual fall celebration featuring educational, athletic and social events for all members of the Cornell community.
Associate Dean Stanley Bowman has been named acting dean of the college. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1973, Bowman will serve as dean until a new dean is appointed.
Richard Meier, the architect of the Getty Center heads a list of distinguished artists, educators and critics who will offer insight into America’s cultural climate during a symposium Oct. 4-6 at Cornell.
Local and state government officials are learning that factors such as skilled labor, strong infrastructure and good schools provide more incentive than tax subsidies for businesses to start up or relocate to New York, according to a Cornell report by graduate researchers delivered on May 29.
The following are quotations from an address by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Cornell's Senior Convocation, held from noon to 1 p.m. on May 25 in Barton Hall.
High school teachers from across North America and from as far away as Asia will travel to Cornell University to be honored by their former students on May 22. The students, honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars, represent the top 5 percent of Cornell's 1996 graduating class.
