MEDEX Global Solutions, a 24-hour travel emergency service, will protect Cornell travelers beginning March 18. It also provides medical assistance, medical and political evacuation and more. (March 10, 2011)
A herpetologist and a political scientist have won Luce scholarships to study in Asia for a year. The Luce Scholars Program began in 1974 to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders. (March 10, 2011)
Using a very fast oscilloscope, researchers have figured out how to quantify the strength of current-induced torque used to write information in memory devices called magnetic tunnel junctions. (March 9, 2011)
The new library Animal Legends exhibition opened with a lecture by Vice Provost Laura Brown on 'Love, Paradise, and the Rise of the Animal in English Literature,' March 4. (March 8, 2011)
At the Capital Poetics: Poetry and the Economic conference March 4, scholars discussed the relation of poetry to the political economy. (March 8, 2011)
At the annual meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women, members heard about Cornell's global programs and the Language House, got career advice, networked and more. (March 8, 2011)
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
