The Feline Club at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine will hold its annual Feline Follies Saturday, April 23, 2005, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the atrium of the veterinary college.
A group of experts on peer-to-peer file sharing managed to agree on one thing last night: that having people obtain intellectual property without compensating the creators is not a good thing.
Two undergraduates have won Udall Scholarship. They are Shoshannah Lenski, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Lena Samsonenko, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Cornell juniors receive Truman, Goldwater scholarships. Junior Elisabeth Becker, double major in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive a Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship, and Kevin Joon-Ming Huang, a junior in the College of Engineering, has won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Bill Nye, TV's popular advocate for science education, returns to Cornell on April 3-12 in his role as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. He will deliver a public lecture April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $18 million to begin development of a new, advanced synchrotron radiation x-ray source, called an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL).
Cornell sophomore Nathan H. Poffenbarger, 20, of Woodsboro, Md., was charged Sunday morning (Feb. 19) with felony assault for allegedly stabbing 22-year-old Charles Holiday, a black Union College senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., who was visiting the Cornell campus.
Robots that walk like human beings are common in science fiction but not so easy to make in real life. The most famous current example, the Honda Asimo, moves smoothly but on large, flat feet. And compared with a person, it consumes much more energy.
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.
