An engineer and a chemist, working together on a corporately funded research project at Cornell, are reporting a fundamentally new way to fabricate nanoscale structures on silicon that promises the development of devices ranging from biological sensors to light-emitting silicon displays.
Anti-poverty law specialist Lucie E. White, the Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver Cornell Law School's Robert S. Stevens Lecture, April 11.
"The Domestication of Computers" will be the topic for Joel S. Birnbaum, senior technical adviser at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), in the Henri Sack Memorial Lecture Wednesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.
Itamar Rabinovich, the president of Tel Aviv University and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will give two public lectures during his April visit as a Cornell Andrew Dixon White Professor-at-Large.
Krishanu "Kris" Saha, a senior majoring in chemical engineering at Cornell, has been named a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation. The Churchill scholarship provides for a year of graduate study in engineering, mathematics or science at Churchill College of the University of Cambridge.
An entirely new class of rubbery plastics has been produced in the laboratory by a Cornell researcher and two co-workers. Because the material uses two common and inexpensive petroleum products, ethylene and polyethylene, for its feedstock, the research has the promise of greatly reduced production costs.
The transition to retirement is particularly stressful, especially when one spouse retires before the other, says a new study by researchers at Cornell. During this time, couples fight much more and are significantly less satisfied with their marriages.
Daniel A. Carp, chairman, president and CEO of Eastman Kodak Co., will be the Johnson Graduate School of Management's Park speaker on Monday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. in B09 Sage Hall. The title of Carp's talk is "Crossing the Digital Divide." The event is free and open to the public.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its regular meeting March 9 on campus, approved a tuition increase of $1,140 for undergraduate resident students in Cornell's statutory colleges for the academic year 2001-02.
