Cornell graduate Michael Schwam-Baird '02 has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he will pursue a master's degree in economic and social history. Schwam-Baird is a native of Jacksonville, Fla.
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Barbados native Damany Gibbs, a Cornell University 2003 engineering graduate, has won a 2005 Rhodes Scholarship, considered the world's leading academic scholarship, for two or three years of study at the…
Exactly what governs the motions of falling paper? While college students suspect the answer is known to lazy professors – the ones who allegedly grade essays by throwing them down stairwells to see which sails the farthest.
The future of fusion power may lie not in a 20 million-ampere bang, but a 1-million-ampere pop. Plasma studies unwinds a powerful COBRA for high-density simulations.
Mark Polking, a junior in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, has received a 2004 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, considered the premier undergraduate award in mathematics, science and engineering.
The symposium, "Women Working on Mars," was part of JPL's Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, an annual outreach event that encourages young women to consider a career in engineering or science.
The connections of polymer science to biology will be examined when a major academic research conference with industrial participation, the 14th annual Polymer Outreach Program (POP) symposium.
Morris K. Udall Scholarships for the 2003-04 academic year have been awarded to two Cornell University undergraduates – Abigail Krich and Summer Rayne A. Oakes.
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the most prestigious national awards for undergraduate students in the fields of science, mathematics or engineering, have been won by four Cornell undergraduates. Now in its 15th year, the Goldwater Scholarship programs honors the late U.S. senator from Arizona and provides awards of up to $7,500 per year for each recipient to help cover the costs of tuition, fees, books and room-and-board.
