Cornell chemists have created the world's smallest wires and encased them in a plastic polymer, an accomplishment that could lead to a host of new electrical or optical uses at the nanometer scale.
Students enrolled in the four statutory colleges at Cornell are receiving good news this week. The elimination of a proposed tuition increase for the State University of New York when the state budget was passed, most students in the statutory colleges will see tuition reductions
Top scholars in psychological science present state-of-the-art thinking on personality disorders and developmental psychopathology in two new books edited by Cornell clinical psychologist and psychopathology researcher Mark F. Lenzenweger: Major Theories of Personality Disorder and Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology
Afrocentricity in "The Lion King" and senior living in upstate New York for African Americans are some of the topics to be addressed in a colloquium series this fall at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. Free and open to the public, the series will be held Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Hoyt Fuller Room of the Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road, Ithaca; refreshments will be served.
Every year, more than 3 million American children -- including more than 211,000 in New York -- are reported abused or neglected. Each day, three children die from such maltreatment.
John Silcox, the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering and director of the Materials Science Center at Cornell, has won the 1996 Distinguished Scientist Award in the Physical Sciences from the Microscopy Society of America.