An international team of eight "satellite hunters," astronomers who pluck tiny specks of light out of the distant solar system, has discovered four new outer moons of Saturn orbiting at least 15 million kilometers from the surface of the giant planet.
Dominicana author Loida Maritza Pérez, a 1987 Cornell University alumna, is the keynote speaker at the Latino Studies Program's eighth annual Unity Dinner Friday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
"Privacy in the Age of Media" is the topic of a lecture at Cornell University by Tom Wicker, retired political columnist for The New York Times and one of America's most respected journalists, Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m.
Chemical biologists at Cornell have pioneered a new imaging technique that offers researchers a new way to observe the working of therapeutic drugs within single cancer cells.
Walter R. Lynn, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering and of science and technology studies at Cornell University, has been named interim director of the Cornell Center of the Environment.
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. This year's teleconference examines the complex relationship between hunger and poverty.
Frank DiSalvo has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, one of 29 such national centers supported by the National Science Foundation.
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.
