Former attorney general Janet Reno to address Cornell convocation May 26 during Commencement weekend

Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general, will address Cornell's convocation for graduating students and their families May 26 during the university's commencement weekend.

TCAT trolley-bus displayed on the Ithaca Commons Saturday

A replica trolley-bus was unveiled to the media and several local dignitaries in a ceremony at the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit facility today. The trolley will be on public display in "bank alley" on the Ithaca Commons, Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Argentina's 'Mothers of the Disappeared' speak at Cornell and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, April 10

Nora de Cortiñas and Margarita Peralta de Gropper, founders of the Madres of Plaza de Mayo -- also known as the "Mothers of the Disappeared" -- will give their personal accounts of the movement during a talk on campus.

Finalists in Cornell architecture competition to present design proposals to jury and campus community April 18

Four internationally acclaimed architects who are finalists in an invited architecture design competition for Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning will present their proposals for a $25 million building project to a selection jury of prominent architects and the campus community.

National Academy of Engineering president to speak on diversity and on fast pace of computing growth

Diversity in engineering is not just about fairness, but about creativity, according to Wm. [William] A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, who will visit the Cornell campus to deliver two lectures on April 11 and 12.

Cornell cosmologist Thomas Gold revives old debate about moon to explain movement of dust into craters of asteroid Eros

More than just dust was kicked up when NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, NEAR Shoemaker, made a successful landing on asteroid 433 Eros on Feb. 12. Also disturbed were the memories of an experiment carried out more than three decades ago by a student of Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell.

All tree biomass is created equal in forests of equal size, whether in the tropics or temperate climes, says Cornell biologist

Does the Amazon River basin thrive with more tree biomass than that along the shores of Opeongo Lake in Canada's Algonquin Provincial Park? Is the Congo Basin more tree biomass-rich than the Argonne Forest in northeastern France?

New process for producing near-atomic scale silicon structures – nanobumps – developed by Cornell researchers

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.

Harvard's Lucie E. White will deliver Law School's Stevens Lecture, April 11

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.