Architect Meier speaks about creating a space where people are happy working together

A conversation with architect and alumnus Richard Meier about the design of Weill Hall in relation to the campus and designing a building to meet the needs of its users. (Oct. 10, 2008)

For researchers in Weill Hall, collaboration between Ithaca and New York City is central

Weill Hall is designed for big-picture scientists: researchers who think beyond the confines of their field to tackle challenges in creative new ways. (Oct. 10, 2008)

Paz-Soldan 'shocked' to discover he's a top-50 intellectual

Novelist, literary scholar and Cornell professor Edmundo Paz-Soldan was named to a list of the 50 most influential Latin intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Astronomy, art and music, old and new, create a conductor's 'dream scenario'

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra will premiere 'Anillos,' by Cornell composer Roberto Sierra, Oct. 11 in Bailey Hall, as part of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences annual meeting. (Oct. 8, 2008)

CU hosts astronomers from around the world

More than 800 astronomers from around the world will descend on Ithaca Oct. 10-15 for the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Carole Boyce Davies receives book award

Africana and English faculty member Carol Boyce Davies has received an award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her historical biography of radical intellectual Claudia Jones. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Science and Technology Studies: From effects of iPods to what happens when humans reshape rivers

STS researchers 'want to understand how science and technology as forms of knowledge are produced; how their credibility is tested; how they change over time,' explains department chair Stephen Hilgartner. (Oct. 8, 2008)

The last word on economics

Larry Blume, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and professor of information science, has co-edited a 7,680-page, eight-volume work, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Online scientific repository hits milestone

Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008 - half a million e-print postings. (Oct. 8, 2008)