Events on campus this week include a tech industry career fair, a conference honoring Mary Beth Norton, a lecture on serving global healthcare, and an epic Turkish film. (Sept. 27, 2012)
Actor and activist Danny Glover discussed unions, activism and the role of art in effecting social change on campus Sept. 25. He also met with ILR School students and faculty. (Sept. 26, 2012)
Cornell computer scientists have proposed an innovative wireless design that could greatly reduce the cost and power consumption of massive cloud computing data centers, while improving performance. (Sept. 26, 2012)
Physicist John Carlstrom will offer a series of Hans Bethe lectures touching on his work in the Antarctic, where he scans the skies for cosmic radiation through the South Pole Telescope project. (Sept. 25, 2012)
Using 3-D time-lapse imaging, physicists, working with plant biologists, have discovered that certain roots, when faced with barriers like a patch of stiff dirt, form helical spring-like shapes. (Sept. 24, 2012)
Holocaust survivor Marianne Willems-Hendrix endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Cornell despite never having attended the university. It encourages study of Jewish women. (Sept. 24, 2012)
In his Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Charles Blow used the Trayvon Martin case to illustrate how today's news consumers make little distinction between straight reporting and agenda-driven activism. (Sept. 21, 2012)
A Cornell study is turning 50 years of language-related science on its head, with implications in fields from evolutionary history to computer science and psycholinguistics. (Sept. 20, 2012)
